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...Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings to mind Laurence Olivier camping it up as Richard III. Fortunately, Malkovich has a gift for suggesting depths in inarticulate characters: the audience laughs with, not at, him when he says of his grief and drunkenness, "This has made me -- you know -- not as whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Skirmishing Along the Borders BURN THIS | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Director Mark Prascak has trimmed Ibsen's epic-length verse drama Peer Gynt to a more comfortable hour and forty minutes, reduced its cast to 10 actors playing a multiplicity of roles, changed its title character's name, modernized its dialogue, and staged it on the edge of a swimming pool. Does it work? I don't know; it's hard to tell...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Ibsen Afloat | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: An Epic Journey Through Myth THE MAHABHARATA | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...movie Berry is a little reticent about his rambunctious private life, which he discusses at length in the book. "This is a movie about my music," he said last week, "not about my life. To put my life in it, it would have to be a nine-hour movie. Like Roots." Roots with raunch. As he says in the book: "I like to play music, softball, twenty questions, chess, croquet, house, and around." In the vocabulary of a courtly hipster, he records his struggles with concupiscence ("Her temptation was awaiting my default and ate at my ethics like an itch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Berry: Still Reelin', Still Rockin' | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Blumenthal admits that when Melanie first asked him to read her thesis, he was slightly put off by its size--600 pages. "I really did not know how much of a duty or pleasure reading Melanie's book would be because of its length," Blumenthal says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Alumna's Summa Thesis Reaps Large Rewards | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

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