Word: matthew
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...Matthew Bernstein literally plays the straight man to the rest of the cast's antics, portraying the indignant homophobic lawyer with an energy that keeps some of the court scenes from dragging. Towards the end of the play, the courtroom arguments get tedious, broken occasionally by Richard Yanowitz's convincing rendition of a batty judge...
...Life in the Theatre remains, as it was on stage, a two-hander between a veteran actor (Lemmon) who never quite made it and a protege (Matthew Broderick) whose star is beginning to rise. Mamet has opened up the work shrewdly, placing the two men among backstage colleagues, on street corners, in neighborhood bars and coffee shops, making their encounters more naturalistic and believable. Yet he and director Gregory Mosher have retained enough of the stylized original to bring off satiric fragments of pseudo-plays -- costume epics and drawing-room comedies that are the antithesis of Mamet's blowtorch aesthetic...
...subject of this review, is a good drama. Ian McKellen (playing Bill Kraus, a gay San Francisco political aide) and Lily Tomlin (playing Selma Dritz, a San Francis-co Health worker torn between her conflicting concerns for the heath and the freedom of the gay community) display exceptional talent. Matthew Modine plays the "young, handsome doctor" passionately, although he probably won't win an Oscar...
...switch to the left ear. Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...
...Matthew M. Bakal '97 says he is "hinting at past improprieties in the U.C." with his campaign sign, "Vote for Matt Bakal. He won't take your money to Acapulco...