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Thanks for putting a human face on gene science and showing that it is not Frankenstein-like experimentation. In a country in which key decision makers rarely understand basic scientific concepts, it was heartening to think that your articles may perhaps educate the people who vote on legislation affecting scientific issues. NICK KNOWLTON Pittsburgh...
...also an accurate reflection of his own nature. At 52, Almodovar has a face that remains round, open, boyish, surmounted--almost contradicted--by spiky Bride of Frankenstein hair. He talks in a rush of movie references, psychological speculation and social observation, delighted by his own wise-child spontaneity, bemused by his fame...
...Broadway musical as blinding stage lights prevent the audience from seeing anything--but a well-traveled off-Broadway theatergoer these days is starting to feel like a voyeur in a Chelsea bathhouse. In just the past few months, we have had a naked Frankenstein's creature (Monster), a naked undercover cop (Blue Surge) and naked just about everybody (Mnemonic). Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci play a full-frontal nude scene at the start of the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. (Falco covers up fairly quickly, but Tucci flounces around for another...
...Astaire, who made his name on the stage, just below that of his dancing sister Adele, inspired a recycled Broadway hit spun two generations later from his 20s Gershwin show "Funny Face" ("My One and Only" in the 80s). And on the low end, in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks duded up his monster (Peter Boyle) in top hat, white tie and tails to sing an Astaire favorite, "Puttin' on the Ritz...
...border, for example--has been kicking around since at least as far back as Al Gore's reinventing-government project of the mid-1990s. But the question that will be debated over the next few months is whether Bush's proposal goes too far, creating a bureaucratic Dr. Frankenstein's monster too unwieldy to do its job, or not far enough, shuffling job titles and office space without fixing the structural and institutional flaws that make Americans feel so vulnerable...