Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's the place where Lincoln was assassinated 129 years ago. As we all know, Booth pumped fatal lead into Honest Abe and then dived to the stage for a dramatic exit...
...play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the play's other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonio's friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars' liberties. The stage is furnished with...
...Film Festival as an "alternative" to that scene. "It's basically breaking this incestuous cycle of endowed committees that give grants for films, and then turn around and hold the festival [for those films]," says Phillips. During the same week that the New Directors/New Films festival played uptown at Lincoln Center, the New York Underground Film Festival played three nights worth of sold-out shows at the Anthology Film Archive in the East Village...
...call a taxi to the White House." Billionaire record company mogul David Geffen. Speaking to former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg about plans to form a new multi-media studio with Steven Spielberg. Geffen was staying in the Lincoln Bedroom as President Clinton's guest. Quoted in The New York Times (October...
...tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom or get out of the way. Thus does he make the viewer a co-conspirator -- and sometimes, as at Lincoln Center, a victim...