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...text and quaint line drawings, McSweeney's (whose print run is now up to 12,000) selects pieces too esoteric, untimely or otherwise uncommercial to make the glossies--experimental fiction, absurdist humor and erudite essays, like a piece on a War of 1812 veteran who believed the earth was hollow and contained habitable worlds within. Like the New Yorker before it became topical and buzz crazy, McSweeney's gives writers the time and space to indulge their interests...
Shue tore her Achilles tendon during the shooting of her next movie, Paul Verhoeven's The Hollow Man, and filming was delayed for several months...
Korder (Search and Destroy, Boys' Life) has specialized in cynical, Mametesque comedy, but with The Hollow Lands he raises the stakes and instantly leaps to the front rank of American dramatists. It is a beautifully written work; Korder seems to have invented the very language of his 19th century characters--formalized yet colloquial, terse yet grandly poetic. "Shall we speak of profit?" urges Samuel Markham Hayes, the Pied Piper who lures Newman west. "You will see it fiftyfold, I guarantee it. Shall we tell of kings? Look into the glass, you will find the measure of one. Shall we dream...
...characters--and probably destined to be picked apart by critics more comfortable with the tidy contemporary dramas that win most of the awards these days (like Margaret Edson's Wit and Donald Margulies' Collected Stories, both also developed at the enterprising South Coast Rep). To be sure, The Hollow Lands wanders a bit uncertainly in its third act. But few plays are as confidently original as this one, as rich with ideas about the making of America, or as stimulating to watch unfold on the stage. Not a bad way to start a nation's new century...
...Sleepy Hollow...