Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important discovery: something about the World Series tends to make us take sides, when possible turning it into a Good vs. Evil battle of demonic proportions. Even though I could never lay an honest claim to the heartbreak that IS "Red Sox Nation," watching Schiraldi, Stanley, Buckner et al. screw it all up hurt just the same...
Through the choreography of chair dances, great moments with Sokol et al, and some well executed sequences with Airaldi, Schlemiel may be worth seeing for true fans of the genre. But one can never have too much of good music, especially when the alternative filler is drama of the substance and caliber that Schlemel has to offer. If only there was no need to wonder "What it?" about the future of musical theater; what a wonderful world it would...
...from the outcast's lucidity that was his vision of it all, he lets loose. "An upper-bourgeois life-style con. A camouflage for egocentricity and commercial theatrics." Propose it to a younger writer, Mark Leyner, who has had two appearances on Letterman and three smart-funny books (including Et Tu, Babe). He goes ugh. "We have allowed for a hipness that's produced in vitro. It has no basis, it's made from scratch...
...even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...
...does it? And what, exactly, does "getting it right" mean? Do Winona et al. really dance to the anxious, the "bemusedly nostalgic," the "clickety-click" rhythms of my generation...