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...most influential play in English, Hamlet, is generally taken to show the failure of the Man of Thought. It ends with the arrival of the alternative ideal: Fortinbras, conquering prince of Norway, a decisive Man of Action. Lee Blessing's fascinating new play begins literally where Hamlet ends and asks whether Fortinbras proves any better a leader...
...comedy on Broadway this season, La Bete, and it bombed.) Short on cash, Ben borrows from Nick Manucci, a colorful old mafioso who wants 10% interest weekly, plus 50% of the show. As events hurtle toward opening night, agitations grow and Ben becomes more and more indecisive until, like Hamlet, he begins having conversations with his late father. Fortunately, they are witty exchanges by two convincing characters. Then again, in The Best Revenge (Random House; 240 pages; $20) everyone is convincing. Along with Tennessee Williams, novelist Sol Stein was a member of the Playwrights Unit at the Actors Studio...
...with Wolves he played, quite persuasively, cynics who find something to believe in. But Nottinghamshire is no place for California dreamin'. Perhaps, in the two recent movies about legendary princes, the stars should have swapped roles. Mel Gibson could have been a dashing Robin Hood and Costner a provocative Hamlet...
...Death is hot," agrees Bruce Joel Rubin, writer of Ghost. A former hippie who studied Buddhism in India, Rubin admits the seminal idea for the movie came from Hamlet's vapory father. "The film's message is: Life turns on a dime, so tell people you love them," says Rubin. Director Blake Edwards, whose current film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid...
...theorists, but deeply pragmatic crusaders who barnstorm the country, lecturing, evangelizing, designing, bit by bit repairing and redeeming the American landscape. So far the couple and their colleagues have proposed, at the behest of developers, more than 30 new towns ranging from Tannin, a 70-acre hamlet in Alabama, to Nance Canyon, a 3,050-acre, 5,250-unit New Age town near Chico, Calif. Half a dozen such towns are already under construction. Seaside, their widely publicized prototype town in northern Florida, is more than half built. At Kentlands, a new town on the edge of Maryland suburbia outside...