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...From Hamlet to Wet Hot American Summer, which end of your acting range is more satisfying? I like really profoundly written plays, and I like broad comedies. On some astral plane, they don't seem that different to me. I'm like a musician who keeps changing his sound. Not that I consider myself a musician. More of a roadie...
HALF.COM, ORE. In 2000 the hamlet of Halfway got cash and computers to rechristen itself for one year after this website, which later was sold to eBay for a mint...
...change. Few forces are more intense than tribal memory and grievance, the blood's need for vindication. $ The past wants revenge, like Hamlet's father's ghost. Peace settlements in South Africa and the Middle East will bury the bloody shirt, shut down the past as an imperative. The projects of Mandela-De Klerk and Arafat-Rabin are not yet realized, of course. Leaders must bring followers along. Leaders must exercise the visionary's gift. They must tell their people a new story about themselves (in these cases, the story of themselves at peace, to replace their older myth...
...arrogance can be forgiven. Reared in the rarefied domain of theater and opera (he assisted Neil Armfield's acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have...
...passionate peak that year. In a 12-month span, Shakespeare finished “Henry the Fifth, “Julius Caesar,” and “As You Like It,” on top of which he wrote a draft of “Hamlet.” By year’s end, Shakespeare cemented his reputation as a true genius.Shapiro, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, is best known for a highly-acclaimed 1996 study, “Shakespeare and the Jews.” In that book, he explores...