Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...