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...like, What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? What's so funny about pursuing excellence? Why is it that on the show that aspires to celebrate excellence, a fantastic actor has to be used as a punch line? Everybody was uncomfortable with the thing, and [exhales in mock seriousness] I guess it's my position, when I do come down here [to Los Angeles], to be completely devoid of humor. [All laugh] God knows, somebody's got to do it. But bottom line: I didn't think it was funny...
...disoriented entourage is aptly symbolized by a raucous chorus of trumpets and trombones, searching for its pitches through a sliding microtonal minefield. A small Renaissance ensemble often accompanies the shadowy, faceless Ariel (Mezzo Susan Quittmeyer) on his spritely missions, and his unaccompanied Where the bee sucks becomes a mock-Elizabethan song. A trio of alto sax, electric guitar and electric bass represents the bestial Caliban (Mezzo Ann Howard), and his drunken revels with Trinculo and Stephano are celebrated with some exquisitely low-down jazzrock that closes the first act in a brilliant theatrical burst. (Eaton, 50, a professor of composition...
Life as theater, even as a theater of war, is a notion that emerges unexpectedly from many of these pictures, where the war sometimes seems a bizarre welter of chaos and formality, anarchy and self-conscious ceremony. The accumulated effect is not to mock human behavior as in-authentic but to acknowledge a yearning for dignity and order. Mydans' work springs from that same benign instinct. Through decades when each year put forward new varieties of suffering, he recorded the world's dislocations and helped to shape the heart's reply. --By Richard Lacayo
...Mixner, a former political consultant to Gary Hart, PROpeace will be supported by a movable city of 2,500 geodesic tents and six mobile kitchens providing an estimated 3.8 million meals over the course of the march. Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Leonard Nimoy join a mock march in PROpeace's public-service TV advertisement. About $20 million should cover costs, says Mixner, and so far about $2 million has been raised. Though 11,000 prospective marchers have received applications, some may find the path of peace too taxing: each marcher will be asked to find sponsors...
During a panel featuring representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a handful of protestors staged a mock deportation of an ethnic minority student, deliberately coughed to disrupt the speakers, and in one instance induced vomiting to demonstrate disgust for the actions...