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...months a year is not an uncommon sight where I live, and, surprisingly enough, neither are fat children who can't stop cursing. But that, I suppose, was never the root of South Park’s humour. It was those bi-visaged flatulent Canadian television stars, Terrence and Phillip, who destroyed the moral fibre of South Park, thus igniting the war against the neighbours to the north and spurring the immortal war ballad, “Blame Canada.” Like I said, I just didn’t get it. Canadians’ jaws are firmly attached...
...lure to a classmate, Jenny (Gretchen Mol, the Vanity Fair cover girl who was in two Woody Allen films), and a threat to Jenny's fiancé Phillip (Frederick Weller, who played Brian Wilson in a recent Beach Boys bio-pic). Where attraction looms, in a LaBute play, pain must follow. It's his theme: that people, people like us, hurt people. He has the craft to ensure they do so instructively and entertainingly. The play wouldn't work as seductively as it does-the set-up, the darkening, the climactic switcheroo-without four beguiling actors who make their characters...
...point, Jenny says Phillip is "being funny," and Adam asks, "Funny how? Like 'telling jokes' funny or 'making letter bombs' funny?" This stinging fable is both. As with LaBute's earlier work, this is not a cruel play; it's a play about cruelty. Here the author again shows his delight in picking up rocks to see the ugliness of the creatures crawling underneath. But as a canny anatomizing of the things that presentable people do to each other in the name of love or art, the new LaBute is a real la-beauty...
...Square is becoming more tourist-y and less college-y,” says Phillip M. Chan...
...Card worked closely with Democratic representative Phillip W. Johnston in efforts to reform Mass. politics, helping to end corruption in state construction projects...