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...like your drama in the flesh, check out the Loeb Drama Center on Brattle Street, home to the American Repertory Theatre. The renowned troop will perform Ibsen's downer "Hedda Gabler" and George Bernard Shaw's farce "Misalliance" this summer...
Musical by a Broadway kinda guy who wrote an operatic show that'd please everyone from Hedda Gabler to Hedda Hoppra...
...Neal Gabler...
...sustained attempt to live a fiction, and to cast its spell over the minds of others." The words are not Neal Gabler's. They are taken from Sir Isaiah Berlin's characterization of Benjamin Disraeli. But it is a measure of this book's range, seriousness and distance from the typical Hollywood history that Gabler can comfortably evoke an Oxford scholar's description of a 19th century English Prime Minister to define the achievements of the first generation of movie mogul-ogres...
...that Gabler stints his descriptions of the rages and outrages by which, up to now, we have known Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and their ilk. There is plenty of rowdy entertainment here. But there is also unsentimental sympathy for these East European Jews who, barred by prejudice from the genteel, gentile Establishment, created a patriarchy that was in its way more potent. The dream America that they placed on the screen -- an epic, colossal megafiction -- in time redefined the American dream for everyone. That empire of their own thus became a mighty colonial power in the world...