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Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book against the death penalty, Dead Man Walking, became a movie and even an opera. At 65, she's only getting angrier. In The Death of Innocents, she escorts two men to their executions--and this time she's sure they are not guilty. Prejean spoke, barely pausing for breath, with TIME's Amanda Ripley about the Pope, politics and hypocrisy...
Princesses become strip-teasing starlets, peasants turn into movie extras, and prostitutes are reincarnated as older, sexually active stars in the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) take on Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Under the guidance of innovative first-time stage director Kate D. Greenhalgh ’06, the DHO version of Candide, which is based on Voltaire’s work by the same title, will transport the characters from their traditional setting in the medieval past to 1950s Hollywood...
...boxing dramas. For its silver-anniversary edition, the director has added six fascinating mini-documentaries and three audio tracks with no fewer than 13 commentators (including the film's subject, Jake La Motta, now 83). But the movie stands on its own, undefeated. It's psychodrama with grand-opera intensity and a knockout punch...
...might draw crowds around common room televisions campus wide, but computer screens are increasingly the hot spot for high-drama entertainment. First aired in common rooms and JCRs, Ivory Tower, the HRTV soap opera that tries to make Harvard social life interesting, is available online...
...Barenboim caused a flurry of controversy when he led a performance of Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” in Israel. Prior to the performance, the country had maintained an informal ban on the music of Wagner, whose compositions are said to have influenced Adolph Hitler...