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...think Jordan has answered their questions. He may never make it to the majors, and something still tells me he'll be a Bull some day soon. But so far, I tip my hat to his attitude and persistence...
...during which the Foundling Father slips out of his impersonation of Lincoln to tell us directly about the various beards and shoes and costumes he alternates between. This "performance" of Lincoln is both humorous and moving. The Foundling Father says confessionally, "some inaccuracies are good for business. The stovepipe hat was never really worn indoors, but people don't want their Lincoln hatless." The register changes completely when he plays Mary Todd: her first word after her husband's death, "Emergency, Oh, Emergency, please put the Great Man in the ground" resonate chillingly throughout the play...
DIED. DONALD SWANN, 70, composer and performer; of cancer; in London. Quieter half of the British comedy duo Flanders and Swann, Swann wrote the eclectic music for Michael Flanders' gently satirical lyrics in a pair of revues, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat. They toured throughout the '60s, with Flanders providing dry commentary and lead vocals and Swann at the keyboard, adding his thin but enthusiastic tenor to such whimsy as The Gasman Cometh, Song of Reproduction (a jab at stereo enthusiasts) and The Hippopotamus Song, an ode to "mud, mud, glorious...
Razor-sharp, gritty, and warped: that's "Reservior Dogs." Tarantino's characters are awful, slimy,, ignorant guys who throw around words like "nigger," and "bitch" at the drop of a hat, and who function according to skewed, self-dictated systems of morality. We don't liek them. Any of them. But they are real, and complex, and Tarantino manages to keep us hooked...
...significance didn't really hit meuntil the first four rolling notes of the lastpart of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony came driftingover the air. And then they repeated. Andrepeated. And I, somewhat hat to my surprise,started crying...