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...everyone around us. But Commencement in the magic year 2000 is as good a time as any for administrators and students alike to stop and listen to the voices of the Yard and to acknowledge the influence of Harvard's ghosts. Perhaps they will serve as the ghost of Hamlet's father did for the young Prince of Denmark (Class of 1600?), helping to whet their and our almost blunted purposes. The winding train of ghosts of students past which we are about to join can still have influence, and some of that influence will be ours...
...apparent transformation of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from ruthless master of metropolitan machtpolitik into compassionate hybrid of Hamlet, the Duke of Windsor and Graham Greene raises a fascinating question. Can a person really, and I mean fundamentally, change...
...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...
...nearly 80 years in theater, film, radio and TV, Gielgud, who died last week at 96, gave such passionately acute readings in works sublime and not so; what other actor would be pleased both to be the definitive romantic Hamlet, which he acted some 500 times, and to lend regal pedigree to Bob Guccione's pornific Caligula? Who else could earn critic Kenneth Tynan's prickly compliment "the finest actor on earth, from the neck...
DIED. PAUL BARTEL, 61, writer, director and actor whose talent for black comedy was best exemplified in the 1982 cult hit Eating Raoul; of unknown causes; in New York City. Bartel acted in nearly 70 films, including the recently released adaptation of Hamlet...