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...many of the reforms that Husak suppressed. Whether Jakes (pronounced Ya-kesh) is the right man for that job is hotly debated. A colorless Soviet-trained bureaucrat who presided over a sweeping purge in the early 1970s, he hardly qualifies as new blood. In an interview with TIME, Dissident Playwright Vaclav Havel called Jakes a "man without a specific face, without his own ideas." On the other hand, said Havel, "in our situation any change is good." Jakes's pro-Soviet credentials suggest that he may be at least somewhat more amenable to Gorbachev's demands for reform than Husak...
...Spielberg decided to take the manly course of growing up onscreen. Adapting J.G. Ballard's fictionalized memoir of his days spent scavenging for survival in a Japanese concentration camp, Spielberg and Playwright Tom Stoppard (Travesties, The Real Thing) do a reprise of the director's favorite narrative recipe. A child is separated from his parents, confronts adversity and is reunited with them. But here the child is not abducted by poltergeists < or locked in a De Lorean time warp. Young Jim (Christian Bale) loses his way because, in the tumbledown panic of escape from Shanghai, he reaches for his precious...
...warily eyeing him on his Connecticut spread and sententiously proclaims, "We are all connected, watching one another. Even the trees." Still, if Miller the autobiographer refuses to offer shapely stories and easy pleasures, but instead insists on the uncomfortable, the unsettling and the contentious, that is what Miller the playwright has done for more than four decades. American literature -- and life -- has been vastly the richer...
...Playwright Arthur Miller' s autobiography evokes conflicts with McCarthy and Monroe. -- A celebrated French novel arrives...
...faculty committee in dramatic arts, which must approve the HRDC's choices for the mainstage, agreed. Says noted playwright and committee member Professor William Alfred, "They told me why they thought the play would be the most viable in terms of not only the quality of the director and script but also how it fit in with other things on the program...