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"The !Pelikula can be offended at the mere mention of an actor they consider to be inferior. Mention of these actors is tantamount to violating a sacred taboo. When I mentioned Jim Carrey's name in one conversation, for example, the shaman of the tribe spit three times and walked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of Africa | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

Director Declan Donnellan has a gimmick: all the characters are played by men, as in Shakespeare's day. Designer Nick Ormerod has built a pristine set -- white walls, with green streamers for the Forest of Arden. In themselves, these elements are neither radical nor necessarily helpful; every English public school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Something to Sing About | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

It's a success story as heartwarming as one of those sentimental father-son talks on Home Improvement. Allen, 41, is hardly the most brilliant comedy star of his generation, though some might call him its most brilliant example of multimedia Hollywood marketing. But few superstars seem less inflated by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tim At the Top | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

The production itself is another matter. Rather than trusting the music to make its effect, Graham Vick offers instead a cartoonish and superfluous gloss on the sardonic opera. Vick, the director of productions for the Glyndebourne Festival, and his all-British production team have set the action in the deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Out, Damned Opera Director | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Hubris -- a kind of convulsive, ambitious pride -- was the tragic flaw in many a Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Club Adriatic | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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