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Reubens is said to have a house in the Hollywood Hills that makes the cartoony Gary Panter set from Pee-wee's Playhouse look like Martha Stewart's place. It's supposed to be jammed with toys and kitschy knickknacks and surrounded by a cactus garden he planted himself. "It's sad-scary. Even telling you this, you're thinking, 'Funny and colorful.' No. It's scary," he says. He's going to take it apart, get rid of all the junk, de-Pee-wee it, maybe make it a place for an adult. Then again, with all his other...
Fittingly, the play that has brought these two little-known Irish actors to Broadway, Stones in His Pockets, explores the flip side of their situation--the disruptive effect on a small Irish town when a big Hollywood film crew sets up shop. The play, a sellout hit in London and winner of the Olivier Award for best comedy of last year, has arrived in New York with its production virtually unchanged. That includes, most crucially, Campion and Hill in the leading--and only--roles. They play two locals working on the film as extras, as well as (a gimmick born...
...level, the play is a wee thing. The first act spends most of its time making spirited fun of the culture clash between the Hollywood phonies and the Irish yokels. In Act II the piece deepens, as a drug-troubled youth who has been rejected from the movie (and by the star he idolizes) drowns himself, a tragedy that raises, without a great deal of huffing and puffing, the dark side of Hollywood's dream factory. The play's real triumph, though, is the showcase it provides for the breathtaking virtuosity of Campion and Hill. They slide...
Belfast playwright and actress Marie Jones based the play on her own encounters with Hollywood (she played Daniel Day-Lewis' mother in In the Name of the Father) and those of her husband--also the play's director--Ian McElhinney, who has had bit roles in such films as Michael Collins. The blarney-filled Hollywood romance being filmed in the play bears some resemblance to Far and Away (which starred those Irish favorites Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman), but Jones insists she isn't skewering any single movie or star but simply trying to show what happens "when the wagon...
Most students choose a medical school for its prestige or price tag. I chose one where I wouldn't be the only student born before 1970. Two years ago, at 32, I traded in my Hollywood executive's black blazer for blue hospital scrubs at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Thirty-two may seem young, but in medical education, which can last more than a decade, it's often considered over the hill...