Word: playfully
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Jesus is munching on popcorn chicken in Loker Commons. This isn't your Father's Jesus: he's clean-shaven, cherubic, a genial-looking guy in a comfortable sweater--J. Crew, the official sponsor of the Second Coming. Meet Jeffery E. Fowler '01, who will play Jesus in this fall's production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Not that the two are one and the same: Fowler is the first to admit that he is no celebrity (or divinity, for that matter), and it's clear that this whole Jesus thing has not gone to his head. Getting into the character...
...could it be that Jeff Fowler was destined to play this part? He did sing Jesus' big solo, "Gethsemane," for his Common Casting audition, but there are more obvious similarities. Just as the ancients had problems accepting Jesus' teachings, so too did Harvard defer this Jesus' proposal for a special concentration. And then there's the long hair, which the then-crewcutted Fowler began growing out in the spring of this year in mental and physiological preparation for the role he hoped to take on."Growing out my hair was sort of positive reinforcement, looking in the mirror every...
...This is not to imply that the show is some millennial tent revival. Indeed, the cast constantly jokes about Fowler's connection to his character: "If there's a scene in rehearsal when I'm not doing much, we'll play a mock game of 'paper, rock, scissors' where I win every single time. If I went to a party, and they didn't have enough to drink, they'd be like 'get over here, we've got a bucket of ice--change this into something!'...Some people say they're really reluctant to piss me off now, because...
...there is one more factor, she says: "You get to play around with make...
...camp classics.Yet, there is nothing tongue-in-cheek about this film. It is marketed as a thriller, in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic The Birds. Bats totally lacks the sensitivity of Hitchcock's thriller. In fact, this movie makes one yearn for the emotional depth of Child's Play and the subtlety of Moe, Curly, Larry or even Shemp...