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...apparent contradiction in that exchange gets to the crux of Ridley Scott's fascinating epic Kingdom of Heaven. The film, written by novelist William Monahan, constantly poses thorny questions on the nature of military goals and religious beliefs. It raises these issues for viewers and, crucially, for itself. And it keeps juggling its conundrums up to the climax and beyond...
Wilson's plays already stand apart from virtually anything else in contemporary theater. The overarching subject of his epic is the legacy of slavery, yet the plays teem with vibrant, idiosyncratic, fully imagined characters who are never reduced to political placards. The plays are realistic, even old-fashioned, in style but sprinkled with mysticism and magic: ghosts, visions, seers and a matriarchal figure named Aunt Ester, who recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first...
However, as DJ Spooky’s show at Sanders Theatre last month demonstrated, VJs aren’t limited to psychedelic wankery, but can create unique politically charged artistic statements. In Sanders, Spooky juxtaposed a live remix of the Ku Klux Klan epic “Birth of a Nation” with his own orchestrated hip-hop beats...
...rule, A + P are at their best when they choose control over effect and subtlety over staginess. In the last two songs, “While You Were Asleep” and “duPatios (epic),” Wilkis’ voice never strains or shouts and the lyrics never try for punch lines or catchy hooks, but both songs achieve a foggy dreaminess that begs another listen...
RETIRED. William J. Obanhein, 60, tough, taciturn police officer in his native Stock-bridge, Mass., made reluctantly famous when he arrested visiting Folk Singer Arlo Guthrie for littering on Thanksgiving Day 1965, thereby becoming the heavy, "Officer Obie," in Guthrie's talking blues epic, Alice's Restaurant, and in the 1969 hit film in which each played himself; from his position as chief after 34 years on the force because, he said, of his frustration with the courts and smalltown politics; in Stockbridge. Obie and Guthrie, a resident of nearby Washington, Mass., became friends after the clash over trash...