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...Heads is stuffed with symbolisn and thick with metaphors. The Queen predicts the events of the play with a deck of fortune-telling cards. Stanislas is also known as Azreal, or "angel of death." And there are fairly explicit allusions to, and indeed, reenactments of, such works as Hamlet. But this self-conscious symbolism need not be over- analyzed; it exists merely to provide texture...
Hogan expresses his regret that cross-gender and racial casting is still "more on the level of debate than reality" in mainstream film and theatre. He cites his willingness to cast regardless of race or gender. "I would have no hesitation casting a black Hamlet," Hogan says. "Looking Danish is not the essence of Hamlet...
...HAMLET. What do you do if your parents are George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst? If you are Campbell Scott, you go into the family business, appear on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night and on film in Longtime Companion, then scale the actor's Everest in this stirring production at San Diego's Old Globe Theater...
...novel and screenplay Postcards from the Edge, is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. But it shouldn't matter whether this wonderful comedy is really about famous people who make life tough for themselves and the ones they love most. It's like worrying whether a historical Hamlet really lusted after his mother. Postcards is no Debbie Dearest, no venomous settling of scores. For Carrie Fisher, the play's the thing -- the play of words on a stage of mixed emotions as big as a Hollywood back...
...likely bride, Christine Sandberg, then to bring her to the U.S., and finally, after their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were a few Dutch families in this rolling, forested country at the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, but no Danes who might have written to say there were lumberjack jobs...