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...many distinguished veterans of the Royal Shakesepeare Company does it take to make a bi-g-budget trashy movie? Well, two. Paging Ian McKellen as Magneto. In X2, this evil genius - a Hannibal Lector with preternatural powers - was briefly lured to the side of Good. Now he backslides into his natural malevolence. Donning a mask that looks like the one South Park's Butters wears when he turns into Professor Chaos, Magneto performs one impressive fit of mischief: he teleports one end of the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito to Alcatraz...
...Anna in the Tropics a few weeks ago. Her complaint: too much cigar smoking onstage. The usher patiently explained that the play is, after all, set in a cigar factory--a family-owned plant in Tampa, Fla., in 1929, where the Cuban-American workers have just hired a new "lector" to read novels to them while they work. Cigar smoke, however, is only one of the sweet and strange aromas that waft from Anna in the Tropics. Written in the lyrical, somewhat formalized language of a folktale, the play is both a slice of cultural history (such lectors, paid...
...production at a small theater in Coral Gables, Fla.--was the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Now the play is a hot property, with three simultaneous stagings at regional theaters this fall, one of which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays, Lorca in a Green Dress, is being staged in Oregon. His Two Sisters and a Piano, about a pair of Cuban political prisoners under house arrest, will be produced next year in San Diego and London...
...schools and to the aspirations of Mexican immigrants. After he was elected President, Bush surrounded himself with excellent people who cared about the poor--people like John DiIulio and David Kuo, who ran the faith-based program office; the speechwriter Mike Gerson and his then deputy, Pete Wehner. (Caveat lector: several of them are close friends of mine.) I figured this was one Republican Administration that really would take a fresh, serious look at antipoverty programs...
...addition, Frey works as the executive editorof The Independent, a job she reports takes about20 to 30 hours a week. Like many students, Freyalso finds a need to branch out in choosingextracurriculars. Not every CS concentrator canboast membership in Toscinini Chamber Orchestra oreven occasional readings as a lector at St.Paul's Church...