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...point, then as now, was that stage and screen are places of sublime pretense where audiences can make believe that any actor is perfect for any role. A woman can play Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt); a black man can play Shakespeare (Morgan Freeman as Petruchio, Denzel Washington as Richard III in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare series in New York City's Central Park). Some call it inspired casting. Others, like producer Dominick Balletta of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, call it affirmative action. "Nontraditional casting was meant to create opportunities for actors of color," he says, "not to take jobs away...
Those earnest souls who passed the early decades of this once dangerous, vulnerable actor's career awaiting his Hamlet are doubtless going to be dismayed that his first sustained screen appearance since becoming eligible for Social Security is not in something sort of Lear-ish. But The Freshman is no small thing. Well, actually, it is a small thing. But to a moviegoer deafened by and reeling from the rolling barrage laid down by the early summer's big box-office guns, the determined modesty, the unsprung affability of Andrew Bergman's comedy are precisely what make it treasurable...
Rents in the upstate New York town of Salamanca were cheap 100 years ago and have barely gone up since. Back in 1892 the Seneca Indians agreed to rent the 1,700 acres of their tribal land, on which most of the hamlet is built, for only $17,000 a year. Now the 99-year lease is about to expire, and the Senecas want a rent increase -- to $800,000 annually. Salamanca's 6,600 residents, who own their houses but lease the land, point out that hard times have already wiped out half the town's small businesses. Many...
Gamblers are also flocking to the tiny town of Laughlin, Nev. (pop. 4,400), on the Colorado River some 90 miles to the south of metropolitan Las Vegas (pop. 650,000). Founded by Don Laughlin, an enterprising developer who arrived in 1966, the hamlet has used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers...
Mark has an amazing talent with the Etch-a-Sketch. For a while, he did a different one every day. Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. More demons, some of them on motorcycles. Scenes from the Arabian Nights. When he went back to Cairo to visit his fiancee, after finishing his thesis, Mark said goodbye to the house with a pyramid landscape, replete with all three pyramids, a blazing sunset, a camel and himself waving goodbye in the distance. The round knobs just don't look capable...