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Today Zhang Yimou is China's ambassador to sophisticated moviegoers. He is a world-class artist who gives his films (Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern) heartbreak and visual grandeur. But people do not see Zhang's films so much as they read them, like fortune cookies, for signs and omens about the interior life of a forbidden country. Forbidden to him as well: the Chinese authorities have withheld release of some of his films. And yet Zhang still works in his homeland, against all odds and with great grace. Just like the heroine of his spare...
...THEIR LYRICS WEREN'T INTELLIGIBLE (and intelligent) and their voices didn't heartbreak on every third syllable, the GIBSON/MILLER BAND could pass for prime rockers, make big money and be forgotten by Labor Day. Instead, country can claim them as new stars of its make-believe barroom. On their album Where There's Smoke, they are tough guys with heart and humor. They can taunt a lady friend's angry father ("Your daddy hates me/ Much as I love you . . ./ He don't know we're a lot alike,/ You been keepin' us both awake all night") or wail like...
...Heartbreak House...
There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see good Shaw done badly. It is not difficult to concoct frothy entertainment from, say, Pygmalion or Misalliance, but Heartbreak House can so easily fall apart in the hands of a less than ideal production--as it does in this American Repertory Theatre rendition...
Ultimately, the director is to blame for the failure of this production. Heartbreak House is not designed to be crammed into two hours. Wheeler makes it move at a breathless pace which offers the audience little time to assimilate the intricacy of Shaw's pessimistic vision, leaving them feeling confused and bored...