Word: haring
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...Race between the tortoise and the hare...
...much for the moral—the hare won! But the tortoise was fake, so Flyby, like everyone else, was rooting for the hare anyway...
...left to watch? Nighy. If the Academy handed out an award for Best Overacting, he would win every year. A stalwart of British theater, particularly David Hare plays, he is most warmly remembered by movie audiences for playing the drug-addled rock star Billy Mack in Love Actually and the pirate Davy Jones in the last two Pirates of the Caribbean offerings. (He also appears, his emoting confined to the standard range, as one of Tom Cruise's cohorts in Valkyrie.) Here, outfitted with piercing powder blue eyes, Nighy ascends to scenery-devouring heights that obliterate the boundary between...
...People's Playwright Hare stands out as a highly collaborative writer, eager to work closely with directors and actors. It's a legacy of his days on the road with the leftist theater company he co-founded after graduating from Cambridge University. He arrived at Cambridge in 1965 a confirmed Americophile, having spent six mellow months in California. But soon enough he was studying literature with the Marxist critic Raymond Williams, and spending evenings debating how to cause maximum damage to Britain's ruling class - by bombing Buckingham Palace, Parliament or London's financial district...
...Hare's big ideas aren't as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: "priests or policemen, social workers or teachers," he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse of the capitalist system, his later works are less absolute, exploring "the necessary hypocrisies of public life." With the state of politics today, Hare won't be out of a job anytime soon. But, as he has discovered, sometimes audiences would rather focus on hope than hypocrisy. He frets that...