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Buy?ology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy By Martin Lindstrom Doubleday; 240 pages...
DIED The inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in Martin Scorsese's Casino, Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was labeled "the greatest living expert on sports gambling" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Head of the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos, he was famous for his alleged ties to the Mob. After surviving an attempt on his life, Rosenthal left the city and ended his gambling career. He never admitted any wrongdoing, once invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 35 times in a 1961 Senate hearing on gambling and organized crime...
...central issue revolves around Albee’s protagonist, Martin (Eduardo J. Perez-Torres ’12), who reveals to his family that he has been having an affair with a goat named Sylvia. And it’s not just sex he is after. No, Martin divulges to his dumbfounded wife Stevie (law student Mary R. Plante) that he is not merely infatuated but in love with the goat...
While it may seem difficult to relate to the unusual circumstances in which the characters are embroiled, Perez-Torres believes that the fundamental emotional struggle is universal. “If you have any empathy at all, you understand what Martin is going through and realize that [his situation] isn’t as absurd as you would think,” he says...
...While this play is about the ways we connect with one another, it is also about alienation. For Martin, the goat is what separates him from his family,” she says. “By the performance’s end, I want people to think about what goats are represented in their own lives...