Word: lighter
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...hour show includes graphic scenes of his lymph-node surgery ("There's an extreme close-up of my intestines being taken out") tempered with Green's usual edgy humor ("When you talk about removing something like that from your body, there's always room for laughs"). Now 20 lbs. lighter and just off pain killers, Green hopes the show will raise awareness of testicular cancer, which strikes mostly young men and has about a 96% recovery rate if treated early...
...thought of an idea about famine in a foreign country, it would have been about that. I chose a lighter fare," he said...
From the gritty verbosity of Mamet's American Buffalo to the grief and anxiety of Sam Shepard's Simpatico, theater director Jesse Kellerman '01 is not known for his lighter side. "I wanted to leave audiences shaken and stirred," Kellerman says of the two productions, presented last spring and fall, "not unlike an excessively mixed martini." But with his next production, a collection of short satires and farces on contemporary themes showing this weekend at the Adams House Pool Theater, Kellerman is making a major departure from his dramatic past. For in the thick of reading period stress, the director...
...University shirt for emphasis, he explains how he told his mother he was actually, despite having a girlfriend and the normal high school experience, a lesbian trapped in a man's body. While the monologue touches on serious issues related to transsexuality, the humor of the monologue brings the lighter side of transsexuality to the mind of the audience while addressing the difficulty of social acceptance for transsexuals...
...particularly imaginative set. And yes, the new songs played were good but not in the hits-you-in-the-guts way of the earlier albums - not a good sign for the future. But all I could think of was a group of should haves: should've brought a lighter to wave, should've brought a camera to capture this moment. It all closes where it started: "Rock 'n' Roll Star," the first track off their first album. "Tonight / Gonna Be a Rock and Roll Star." And last Thursday night, Liam Gallagher...