Word: legendizing
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Sandman, without question, steals the show as a music legend with clay feet. Linus Crump is a difficult role, probably the most complex in the play, and Sandman could easily have played the character as nothing more than an asshole. But he manages to humanize Linus, allowing the audience to actually empathize with a rich, spoiled rock star looking for a way to escape. Sandman provides a semi-serious counterpoint to Fortunato and Sun's comic antics...
This green new season, the winner so far is Kevin Baker's first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming. This one ends the way a baseball story should: three and two, two out in the ninth, legend at bat. It starts with a young phenom, a rangy, unsmiling white kid named John Barr, who turns up in the shabby locker room of a Class A team in the West Virginia coalfields. He hasn't played organized ball. He doesn't even own a set of spikes...
...biggest goof of all was ousting character-conscious director Gene Saks during tryouts in favor of Michael Kidd, 73, a legend who has had scant impact on the Great White Way for a couple of decades. The politest thing one can say about Kidd's slack, scattershot staging of The Goodbye Girl is that it will do nothing to revive his bygone career...
...that one forgets there is anything preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing he or she destroys...
...category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...