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...when we were growing up have a profound effect on the way we view the world. I grew up on my mother’s old Louisa May Alcott novels, resulting in a slanted worldview in which, for example, cousin marriage is permissible. (One choice Alcott novel features a plot that requires the heroine to choose which of her eight first cousins to marry.) Though I was informed by my concerned parents at age seven that such practices are, at least in our society, inappropriate, my attachment to Alcott remains. There comes a time when we are supposed to discard...
...reunite friends in vacationland. “Sing Now” follows a closely-knit a cappella group that reunites 15 years after graduation to celebrate the wedding of its seventh member. After a narrated flashback of the cast singing with bad ’80s hair, the plot darts around to introduce us to six men and the women in their lives. Then we watch as they all drive by Long Island landmarks to a beach house owned by Spooner (Chris Bowers), the hot Buddhist astrophysicist of the bunch. “Sing Now” is most engaging...
...summer the season of movie superheroes? No: supervillains. They get the plot spinning toward catastrophe; its their lurid schemes the hero must rise to defeat. Especially in sequels, which will dominate the box office this summer, all the ingenuity not expended on special effects goes into the creation of really nasty villains. Greed was good to villainous Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. To the producers of this summer's would-be blockbusters, bad is great...
Kelso's team has also uncovered a modest cemetery within the fort. The plot, which dates to the colony's earliest years, holds at least 23 individuals: 19 single burials and two double burials (most likely people who died on the same day). One of the single graves contained the remains of a boy with a stone arrowhead in his leg, a broken collarbone and a jawbone that had been partially excised due to an abscess. The position of the bones, the lack of coffin nails and the abundance of straight pins scattered in the graves opened so far indicate...
Even if the jokes weren’t all intentional, the play was amusing for its familiarity—and the more tired elements of the plot were clichéd only because they’ve been emulated and repeated so many times since the days of the Brothers Grimm. “Rapunzel” successfully resurrected the straight-faced performance of a classic fairy tale: oversimplified and well worn, but good-natured and engaging...