Word: playwrights
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...today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally, with everyone else. Collides and contuses. You can see the welts, or rather hear them, in the dialogue by poet-playwright Coleman Hough (a real find); it laces endearments with insults. It cuts as it caresses...
...successful playwright (Sandra Bullock) gives an interview to Time, complaining of an unhappy childhood. Her mother (Ellen Burstyn) takes offense. Her lifelong friends (the Ya-Yas) kidnap Bullock, hoping to explain the sources of Mom's unhappiness and effect a reconciliation. The ladies are Southern, therefore boozy, warmhearted, eccentric--all too predictably and cozily so. After many lumpy flashbacks, peace and harmony are restored. This is potentially near tragic material, and playing it as an all-forgiving comedy is a waste of everyone's time...
...life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...Golden Globe, did much better, but that one is sung through, making it effectively a feature-length music video.) Madonna has earned the right to try whatever she likes. But if she fails, this biggest of stars falls far and hard, in front of millions. Unfortunately, Australian playwright Williamson has handed her a dud of a play (not saved by Laurence Boswell's clever production, which frames the action in a series of art installations). It's the tale of Loren, an art dealer who must sell a Jackson Pollock painting for $20 million or face a $2 million debt...
...with a parallel acting career. DIED. KEVYN AUCOIN, 40, gay-rights activist and makeup artist to the world's prettiest, from Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder to Catherine Deneuve and Isabella Rossellini, of complications arising from a pituitary brain tumor; in New York City. HONORED. ARTHUR MILLER, 86, American playwright, with Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature, making him the first U.S. recipient of the award; in Oveido, Spain. Miller will be presented with $45,500 and a Joan Miro sculpture at a ceremony later this year by Spain's Prince Felipe of Asturias. SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN...