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...tech rehearsal in the Experimental Theater, a different kind of event was humming in the Loeb’s West Lobby. On Oct. 22, the Houghton Mifflin Company sponsored the third annual benefit reading from the 2001 edition of its publication, The Best American Short Stories. The evening benefited PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists) New England, the regional branch of the only worldwide organization of writing professionals, and made for a worthy excuse to put incredible talent on stage. At a reasonable price and with minimal pomp, it proved both an excellent way to support the arts and to enjoy...
Gone too, naturally, is the remarkable artwork of Eddie Campbell. Campbell shares authorship with Moore for good reason. His scribbley, impressionist black and white pen work picks out just the details important to a scene. The rest seems shrouded in mist. After several hundred pages you feel closed in yourself. You can't read the book without at least one walk in the sunshine. The Hughes brothers have their own misty style, but have chosen to shoot in color. The look of the movie becomes its best asset, exploring the medium's unique possibilities of luminosity, movement and composition...
...worked a wash tub sized vacuum cleaner over the red carpet and the expansive water fall that had been showering over a tall rock formation was turned off. As Bush spoke, his translator scratched and tortured her steno book, making circles and slashes as if trying to get the pen to write. In flawless Chinese, she repeated his answers, flipping her notebook pages as if trying to free them. One answer took nearly quadruple the time for her to repeat as it had for Bush to say. The Chinese translator was not very animated. Particularly when Jiang was asked...
...Blake (Bruce Willis) is the hard guy. He proves this in Bandits' first minutes by stealing a concrete-mixing truck and using it to crash out of the Oregon state pen. Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) thinks he's a smart guy but is actually a hilarious hypochondriac. Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) is a homemaker driven mad by her husband's solipsistic indifference. Very quickly they constitute themselves as "the Sleepover Bandits." Their m.o. is to invade the home of a small-town bank manager at night, take the family hostage and, bickering all the way, waltz into the vault...
...DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, four-time Pulitzer prizewinning editorial cartoonist; in Washington, D.C. Creating his works under the pen name Herblock, he made a sport of razing leading political figures, and in 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Freedom?America's highest civilian honor. DIED. EDDIE FUTCH, 90, a boxing Hall of Famer who trained 20 world champions, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin...