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...writer puts both intellect and experience to good use, especially in Deadwood's dialogue, which is vulgar but well crafted, even oddly formal. ("If you're going to murder me, I'd appreciate a quick dying. And not getting et by the pigs. In case there is resurrection of the flesh.") As with NYPD Blue's mannered police slanguage--or, for that matter, iambic pentameter--no human speaks this way. But the writing does what good dialogue should, which is firmly establish its own world and its own logic...
THEATER | L’Historie et L’Enfant
This year, Lowell House Opera presents a pair of French works: Starvinsky’s L’Historie de Soldat and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges. L’Historie is a “musical play” centered around a solider who gives his soul to the devil. L’Enfant is a one-act opera that tells the story of a young boy whose imagination gets the better of him. Directed by Sarah Meyers ‘02 and Sean Ryan ‘03. March...
...repeat principle, Depp has signed on for a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel. Otherwise, his choices remain abidingly idiosyncratic. He'll play J.M. Barrie in Neverland, which traces Barrie's inspiration for the Peter Pan story; he has a small part in a French-language film, Ils Se Marierent et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants, and in June he teams for the fourth time with director Tim Burton to begin work on a long-discussed remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. "I hope it's going to be quite weird," says Depp. "Weird and wonderful...
...care enough about current events to watch this movie, it's no spoiler to say that Gorton et al. ultimately salvage the campaign. (Their secret consultancy was a TIME cover story in 1996.) The drama is in how. Facing a suspended election and crackdown if Yeltsin tanks and possible dictatorship if the communists win, they persuade Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana (Svetlana Efremova) to try a modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about...