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...service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their hamlet a sort of demilitarized zone in the six- year-old Salvadoran civil...
Gielgud directed a Hamlet in which Guinness had a small part, and he can still hear that berating voice -- "like a silver trumpet muffled in silk." "Go away," he told Guinness crossly. "Come back in a week. Get someone to teach you how to act." Guinness did nothing except mope for seven days, but his absence was enough. Gielgud was now delighted with the young actor's new interpretation...
...Goodman Theater in Fences, a new play by August Wilson, author of the Broadway melodrama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wisdom Bridge Theater, which last year toured in Britain and played a summer season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, this week is reviving a much praised multimedia Hamlet. Directed by Robert Falls (who last month shifted from the artistic directorship of Wisdom Bridge to the same slot at the bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors and a staging of King Claudius' taking power as a press conference resonant of Watergate...
...characters tend to get frustrated with bureaucracy and take the law into their own hands. But if voters make Clint Eastwood's day on April 8, he will be the top bureaucrat handling the law in the picturesque California hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (pop. 4,700). Last week, listing his profession as director-producer, Eastwood, 55, filed a petition to run for mayor. Complaining that the incumbent was ineffectual, the new candidate wrote, "We need leadership, experience and some old-fashioned logic to get back on the track." He pledged to deal with such problems as parking, tourism...
Well, what does it really matter? Hamlet is Hamlet whether it was written by the shadowy figure known as Shakespeare or by Sir Francis Bacon or even by one of those lesser claimants like the Earl of Oxford. For that matter, we know hardly anything at all about the creator of The Odyssey, whether he was a man or a woman, one poet or many. Still, any printed work is a reproduction, one of many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original...