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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using a device - actors talking directly to the audience - that is too often the resort of lazy playwrights who don't have the patience to write a fully fleshed-out play. (Read "Who'll Win the Tonys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackman and Craig: Chicago Cops, Broadway Stars | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...breaking point, the two cops narrate much of the action; occasionally comment indirectly on each other's recollections; sometimes re-create actual scenes together. Cumulatively, the effect is to drain the sometimes shocking events of any melodrama, to force us to see them with the same resigned, matter-of-fact detachment these characters do. The taut, 90-minute script builds with a tragic inevitability, yet with a coda of redemption that seems neither forced nor fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackman and Craig: Chicago Cops, Broadway Stars | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...agree on just one thing? A vampire movie (or novel, or TV show) is mainly about vampires; a zombie movie is not about zombies but about the people being chased by them. The undead may have no personality, but their intended victims do. They're the ones who matter. That makes any zombie film, at heart, a relationship picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zombieland: The Year's Coolest Creature Feature | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

GLBT Youth board member Lex Thomas requested that high school students’ last names not be printed to protect their privacy in connection with a potentially sensitive subject matter...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mass. Hosts GLBT College Fair | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...more important than others," noted an editorial in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's largest English-language newspaper. "It has taken an extraordinary financial crisis for the bank to see that its future lies where its roots are." In this supposedly borderless economy, perhaps it does matter where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why HSBC Is Returning to Hong Kong | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

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