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...Pudding members decided that the mock trials had run their course. Lemuel Hayward, Class of 1845, borrowed a plot from a stage play that had been produced in Boston’s Tremont Theatre and created Bombastes Furioso, a “tragicomic opera.” The Pudding’s all-male company cast Augustus F. Hinchman, Class of 1845, in the coveted drag role of Distaffina. The burlesque was staged on December 13, 1844, in Hollis 11 before an audience of Hasty Pudding members...
...high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format. But One is made for the DVD era: watching the 23 "chapters" consecutively, you can better appreciate both the potboiler plot and the performance by alternate suspect Stanley Tucci. Think of it as practice for the Michael Jackson trial. --By James Poniewozik...
...this inane plot slowly unfolds, there are shrieking noises, quick cuts and skulking figures meant to make viewers jump in their seats. Too bad no amount of shrieking, cutting or skulking (and believe me there is some fine skulking going on here…it’s like they took lessons from Hugh Grant’s Divine Brown run-in) could ultimately save this picture...
Amidst countless plot twists, Crichton takes swipes at environmentalist groups—which he says are exaggerating the dangers of global warming—and at the scientific community, which he says is not conducting research “in a humble, rational and systematic...
...tracks where the incident took place are on a 91-acre plot of land that was recently purchased by Harvard University. But the issue is complicated by the fact that the railroad company CSX has an easement on the land, according to Harvard spokeswoman Lauren Mashall...