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...play's staging suffers from the nonsensical directions written into the script. The presence of the four extras who comprise the "later generation" (Anna Blair, Anataria Marie Brown, Jennifer Joel, and Flora Prescott) is largely inexplicable. For most of the play they sit around and watch the main action, dressed in present-day garb; are they meant to frame the spectacle as a play within a play...
...Road and on the Streets, Lars Eighner recounts his own adventures in the modern wild West. However, unlike his literary predecessors who lovingly detailed the majesty of the Rockies or the solemn grandeur of the California sequoias, Eighner chooses a much different subject. Instead of landscapes and flora, he describes the nooks and crannies of the Texan welfare system and the urban beast known as Los Angeles. From the perspective of a homeless man wandering across the Arizona desert, Eighner gives an update on life in today's real frontier, the streets of America...
...current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account for poachers," says Grosz; almost all its parts are salable in Asia. South Korean folklore recommends bear gallbladder for ills ranging from convulsions to tooth decay. As a result...
...interested in learning to play, and so he offers to give Ada back her piano if she allows him to do certain things while she plays, one key for every lesson. As the favors become increasingly sexual, their relationship grows ever more complex, eventually involving Stewart and Flora...
...movie, Hunter manages to provide a full-bodied portrait of Ada, so that the audience knows what she is thinking and feeling without her having to articulate it. Ada marks Hunter's best work on screen thus far. Keeping up with Hunter is Anna Paquin as Ada's daughter Flora. Paquin brings an intensity and credibility to her role that is astounding in someone her age. She is absolutely terrifying in her innocence. It may be safely said without exaggeration the Paquin has turned in one of the best performances by a child actor ever...