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...about included 200 subjects, all of whom suffered from "major depression." Perhaps before discounting the herb's effectiveness, researchers should target folks having mild depression. St. John's wort seems to work for me--but heck, I also occasionally take ginkgo biloba to increase mental agility and clear thinking! MEL DAVIS Addison, Texas
JUDGMENT CALL If only Mel Brooks could write them all La Jolla Playhouse...
...worthy tales need a bad guy, and it is the Dutch who are used to symbolize 21st century Washington. In the coming mainland film Hero Zheng Chenggong, the naval leader overwhelms the colonialists from Holland because, says director Wu Ziniu, "he is like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, fighting for his love of freedom." A state-produced TV mini-series premiering in October will present the Dutch as scheming to divide China. In fact, they were ensconced in Indonesia, "with no plans for a big presence in Taiwan," says Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while...
...theater world is still a little shell-shocked from that Broadway skyrocket known as "The Producers." The Mel Brooks musical based on his 1968 movie opened three weeks ago to the sort of rapturous reviews (and frenzy for tickets) that even Rodgers & Hammerstein would have envied. I don?t want to be the one to rain on this party (heck, that?s my quote - "A gift from the showbiz Gods!" - outside the St. James theater), but maybe a few cautionary words are in order, to try to bring everyone down to earth...
...Producers" is a terrifically entertaining show, one of the best Broadway musicals in years, but I think it falls short of joining the pantheon, for a few reasons. Great musicals have great scores, and the songs that Mel Brooks has concocted are bright and bouncy, but hardly memorable; the song you?re humming on the way out of the theater will most likely be the one you were humming on the way in - "Springtime for Hitler." Great musicals have love stories that are organic to the plot, not tacked on the way the romance between Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick...