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According to Wole Soyinka, a well-known Nigerian playwright and essayist, Americans and Europeans should not measure democracy in Africa by their own standards...
Right Stuff, Actor-Playwright Sam Shepard, 41, said little and stole much of the show, and he is now mightily sought after by Hollywood. But for no strange reason, the film he has currently chosen to do, Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting...
Galas. Or: The Life and Hard Times of Maria Callas. Leave it to off-off-Broadway's Charles Ludlam-playwright, producer, director and, in the title role, every inch a diva-to put the art back into commedia dell'arte...
Most Versatile Talent: Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who scored off-Broadway with his dynamo dramas True West and Fool for Love, and on-screen as the sexy incarnation of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff...
BLOODY AND ABUSED, SIR PETER SOLDIERS ON. Surveying his domain from his aerie in the National, Hall finds as many defenders as snipers. Gielgud praises his "tremendous enthusiasm and energy." Playwright David Hare (Plenty) values Sir Peter's "help, experience and support." Michael Billington, drama critic of the Guardian, argues that "overall, Hall should get very high marks." Actress-Director Maria Aitken finds Sir Peter "very clever, very sexy, very stimulating...