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...much chemistry between them. As Polly’s father Everett, Evan A. North ‘05 manages to turn the plainest lines into jokes with his slow, painfully thoughtful delivery. The Follies are appropriately bouncy, and the cowboys, fully aware of being self-parodies, stage fake shootouts in the saloon and discuss the symbolism of Eugene O’Neill between folksongs...
Cinephiles know the Winnipeg-based Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) as a unique, independent spirit who makes modern movies with exquisitely anachronistic techniques: fake degraded stock, blue and yellow tints, declamatory acting styles and lighting so soft-focus, Garbo could have bathed in it. The Saddest Music in the World, based on a script by Kazuo Ishiguro (author of The Remains of the Day), is Maddin's first superproduction. It boasts a $2.5 million budget and a few actors you may have heard of: Rossellini, Euro-Kewpie Maria de Medeiros and Mark McKinney from...
...local flavor, the couple wakes up in bed together sporting makeshift wedding rings and the totally improbable belief that whatever they did to get those wedding rings is somehow legally binding. When they return to New York and the prying eyes of the New York tabloid press, they fake being married lest their careers suffer. They fake it til they make it, of course, though they’re basically faking it all along...
...finding the right color isn’t limited to hair. Men have made their way into the tanning salons to achieve the perfect bronze glow. “Fake and Bake can do wonders for looking healthy. That’s ironic,’ laughs Jim L. Stillwell ’04-06, who tans about every week and a half. According to Elvis, owner of Sun City Tans, his male customers are increasingly comfortable under the ultraviolet. “We still get a few male customers who seem uncomfortable with the process, but it?...
...play’s main plot revolves around Tzara and Carr, who are forced to fake their names and hide their real artistic and political views in order to win the respective loves of the Joyce-admiring Cecily and the Leninist librarian Gwendolen. The themes are the role of art and politics: should one accept a Wildean view of art for art’s sake, a Socialist one of art as political tool, or a Dadaist conception of art as needing to destroy itself? Is war a matter of defending the innocent or of seizing oil wells...