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...update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist: Mike and every other character speak in iambic pentameter. Will the rival boss kick Mike in the crown? "Balls! Were he Al Capone I'd pluck 'im down...
...young man in East L.A.'s scruffy old Maravilla barrio calls himself Diablo. He wears a sleeveless T shirt, so his tattoos are plain. Diablo, 23, spends most of his free time hanging out with a few fellow members of the Lopez-Maravilla gang. They look tough. But at a meeting in a tool shed late last month, they were mostly concerned with planning an upcoming rummage sale. There are some 300 Mexican youth gangs in L.A., and many are violent drug users: police say 260 homicides last year were gang related...
...sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts are plain, without any emblazonment...
...mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
...audience would sit still while the characters took side trips to, say, a gypsy shrine in Quebec, or into a country-western nightclub where Angelo flirts with a young singer. It is precisely in these back alleys of narrative that the film almost romantically luxuriates, watching a gang of natural exhibitionists reveal themselves and their exotic world...