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Born explained the issue to his wife Hedwig, who was always eager to debate Einstein. She told Einstein that, like him, she was "unable to believe in a 'dice-playing' God." In other words, unlike her husband, she rejected quantum mechanics' view that the universe was based on uncertainties and probabilities. But, she added, "nor am I able to imagine that you believe--as Max has told me--that your 'complete rule of law' means that everything is predetermined, for example whether I am going to have my child inoculated." It would mean, she pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein & Faith | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...have made serious dramas with explicit sexual elements; but these forays could be pretty dour. Nobody I'm aware of had tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for pretending the last 30 years didn't make hard-core romance obsolete. Shortbus is so retro, it seems sparkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the F---ers | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...mood strikes them, have sex--hard core and up close. Shortbus could be called the first middle-class porno movie, but that description wouldn't be fair to this engaging study of love and lust from John Cameron Mitchell, star and author of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. At the film's center is Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist who gets no kick from sex. She and her friends illustrate, amusingly and quite graphically, the way the artist class of post-9/11 urbanites gropes toward intimacy. Not weird enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Unavoidable, Unmissable and Uncovered This Fall | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...This Mitchell was the author, lyricist and star of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Here, his structuring of the material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley. And when the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan / Sexual | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...involved.” After what he describes as a “dull” semester, Burkle decided to go through the audition process and ended up with a couple of roles. Gradually, he became a presence in the drama scene, garnering larger parts. For Burkle, playing Hedwig in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” as a sophomore was an important step in his acting education. “Wearing 8-inch patent leather boots and being a transvestite and being naked at the end of the play was a little bit different than Ohio...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jess R. Burkle '06 | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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