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This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...
...nationalist guerrillas who fought Nazi occupiers and Marshal Tito's communist partisans alike. After eight years of primary school in Montenegro, Karadzic in 1960 joined the flood of young peasants moving to the cities. He had big hair even then, but no money, and thought of himself as a poet. His decision to study medicine in Sarajevo, however, was eminently practical, as medicine was a likely path to security and status...
Since its debut 30 years ago, the members of the doomed Tyrone family have become stock characters on the American stage, as familiar, and as problematic, as our own families. Edmund (Michael Stuhlbarg), the character representing O'Neill himself, is the frail, morbid young poet who in the course of the titular "day" finds that his mysterious "summer cold" is a case of deadly consumption, or tuberculosis. Worry over his weakening condition has driven his mothlike mother, Mary (Claire Bloom) to succumb to her addiction to morphine, a drug she has been hooked on since Edmund's birth 24 years...
...moments in which O'Neill allows Edmund "the touch of a poet", the artistic leanings present in O'Neill himself at the time the play is set, the writing is some of the best of the play. Stuhlbarg rises to the occasion with an intoxicating conviction and a fine control of intonation and gesture belying his top-notch training. His handling of the monologues describing Edmund's time at sea, and his recitation of the Decadent authors Edmund reads, are some of the finest, most piercing moments of the evening. The moments immediately proceeding these, where Stuhlbarg performs a drunken...
...Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko will have proved insightful should Russians vote for Communists in the election. He wrote, "Those who are conceived in a cage yearn for a cage." STEVE HARHAJ New Brighton, Minnesota...