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...easy to draw exact meanings from a performance. A startled leap, a passionate embrace, the hurling of dolls across the stage--all of these motions could mean a number of things. Anger? Fear? Rebellion against society? A choreographer's intention can be difficult to decipher. With a company like Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, however, those intentions can be nearly impossible to grasp...
...quickly. At 10 she was performing on Nickelodeon's children's program You Can't Do That on Television; at 16 she had signed with MCA Records Canada and released her first album, Alanis. That CD and its 1992 follow-up Now Is the Time consisted mostly of Paula Abdul-esque melodies and merciless drum machines--the kind of soulless pop one might play during an aerobic workout on the Love Boat. During this pop-lite phase, Morissette also opened for pseudo-rapper Vanilla Ice in a 1991 concert and appeared with Brat Packish actor Corey Haim...
Frequent character transitions are necessary to pull off so many monologues, but this has the added affect of focussing attention on the actor as an actor and calling the character's credibility into question. Richard Mawe, Deena Mazer, Paula Plum and John P. Arnold each play fifteen people or more, many of whom are themselves performing their story. Clearly some characters are coloring the truth. Others are either delusional or simply lying. They want their memory to serve them and to protect them rather than hew to objectivity. The more deeply the actors dig into their characters the more...
...schoolwork. Then, last summer, Keillan, along with 21 other language-impaired children, was enrolled in an experimental program at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in which the kids improved their auditory skills by playing computer games. The change in Keillan and the others was so remarkable, says Paula Tallal, co-director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers, that even the scientists were stunned. After just four weeks of therapy, Tallal and her colleagues report in a recent issue of the journal Science, youngsters who were performing well below age level had jumped as much...
Donahue's show to reach voters in 1992; with his "I feel your pain" persona, he has even lifted Donahue's shtick. And now, thanks to the tabloids, we can finally imagine what happens when the Donahue New Man meets the Cosmo Girl. Just ask Gennifer Flowers or Paula Jones...