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What saves our constructions from becoming neat but meaningless syllogisms is the messy but incontrovertible evidence of individual lives that survives in diaries, biographies, works of art and living memory. The men and women who were alive a hundred or fifty or five years ago were the characters and the audience for the dramas we are trying to breathe life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph...
Somehow it is all too neat, this balancing of the moral books, just as Axel's character is too contrived for the movie to be emotionally gripping. We are too aware of Writer Toback's undigested intellectual debts as well as his rather adolescent romanticizing of his subject. Nor has London-based Director Reisz (Morgan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) fully absorbed any of the milieus through which The Gambler moves. Most of the time he seems to be taking snapshots for an album to be called something like "Colorful Habits of the Natives...
...MISLED by the title of the current production at the Loeb. Too True To Be Good is no drawing room comedy, peppered with neat Shavian paradoxes and finished off with a neat Shavian conclusion. In fact, it's probably unlike any Shaw play you've ever seen. There are enough witticisms to keep the audience entertained--"I do not know how to live without my wife," says one character, "we were unhappy together for forty years"--but entertainment is not Shaw's principal concern. He denies them the familiar comfort of a traditional dramatic framework, and instead subjects them...
Light Up the Sky, Moss Hart's hilarious comedy about show business, is being performed at the Provincetown Playhouse, which traditionally offers some of the best summer stock in New England. The Playhouse, on the Cape, is next door to the Eugene O'Neill Museum, a neat place to visit if you're down that...
...deserves praise for resurrecting his genius. Tonight's film is about "a humble movie projectionist who is transformed into a master detective thanks to the magic of the silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like these playing for free at a neat place like the MFA's outdoor Sculpture Court, there's no reason in the world to sit home and be bored tonight. The show starts at sundown...