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BAKER LIBRARY, Joseph Losey's The Servant, April 29, 29, 8 and 10, $1 Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street, April...
...having seen his own production of Nutcracker over 200 times this year. "I really do genuinely love watching that show, it's so entertaining," says Bourne. His pleasure at his handiwork is palpable during rehearsals for his latest hit, Play Without Words, an adaptation of the sinister, hedonistic Joseph Losey film The Servant. As dancers create an atmosphere of sex and power through twisting, pulsing movements, Bourne's eyes are shining, his foot tapping to the jazz score. He throws himself into the piece's emotions, laughing at the jokes he's seen a thousand times. "I know it seems...
...Perhaps it is that complexity which has prevented Pinter from having the commercial big-screen hits enjoyed by other playwrights, such as David Mamet (The Untouchables) and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Pinter's 22-strong movie output, however, is critically distinguished - particularly a three-film collaboration with director Joseph Losey (including the creepy Dirk Bogarde-James Fox classic The Servant), and his John Fowles adaptation, The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...Pinter's first original screenplay, The Servant, begins a fruitful collaboration with movie director Joseph Losey...
...Even more worrisome are ecological concerns. In 1999 Cornell University entomologist John Losey performed a provocative, "seat-of-the-pants" laboratory experiment. He dusted Bt corn pollen on plants populated by monarch-butterfly caterpillars. Many of the caterpillars died. Losey himself is not yet convinced that Bt corn poses a grave danger to North America's monarch-butterfly population, but he does think the issue deserves attention. Others agree. "The problem with transgenics is the risks and hazards involved," says Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriskh, an Indian environmental group working to preserve the country's biodiversity. "We still don't know...