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...acting--with a few negligible exceptions--is superb. The heart of this play--Prince Hal (Bill Camp) and Sir John Falstaff (Jeremy Geidt)--beats with perfect rhythm. Mistress Quickly (Remio Airaldi), Doll Tearsheet (Maggie Rush), the Archbishop of York (Herb Downer), and Justice Shallow (William Young) are particularly memorable. Under the direction of Ron Daniels, these characters are shaped pertinently from the text. Not simply characters from Shakespeare, they are characters we interact with daily They are our friends and families; they are ourselves...
...especially urge all seniors to go see this production. As we approach graduation, we face Prince Hal's challenge. Do we take the throne of this diseased kingdom? Do we even want it? And if we do, will we hold tight our childhood dreams, those dreams formerly untainted by considerations of salary, power and self advancement? Or will we slip mindlessly into the grips of the status quo? Can we rise to the occasion of these plagued years? Should we have...
...movie begins sharply, laying out the panoply of privilege: the sleek cars, the comfortable faces (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook). It's like going on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that...
...Made in America sees this, the most obvious difference between Sarah Mathews (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal Jackson (Ted Danson), as the least of their problems. It's not so much the discovery that, because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, Hal may be the father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...
...hard to think of a more widely appealing comic strategy than this. By banishing the issue of racial conflict, the movie remakes the world as every person of goodwill wishes it really were. And by making all the conflicts between Sarah and Hal purely cultural and therefore subject to good-humored behavioral modification, the movie implies that everything else dividing us today can be worked out with equal simplicity...