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...much of the history is presented flatly; neither the faceoff between the Red Guard and the White Guard nor the constraint by censors of the protagonist writer Sergei Leontevich Maksudov feel effectively threatening or looming or tragic. The play, in fact, ultimately derives its strength not from the drama of its history but in spite of it. What is most engaging about the play is not the main plot but the subplot, not the tragic sequences tracing Stalinist repression but the comic theatrical sequences woven into the interstices. The comic representation of life at the Moscow Art Theatre...
Barnes also writes pseudonynously as Dan Kavanaugh, crafting thrillers which focus on a the adventures of a bisexual detective. Barnes concedes however that he is stymied by the realities and responsibilities of AIDS on his protagonist's sexual exploits...
This is basically what his mentor, the Genie, tells him all along. The Genie assumes the role of so many other Disney characters--caretaker of the protagonist. Robin Williams plays the role with his characteristic verve. Animation is the first medium to capture the frenetic quality of Williams' genius. The animator follows his transformations from character to character, voice to voice with grace and style. Apparently only animation seems capable of keeping up with Robin Williams' vitality...
...almost entirely lost. Perhaps it derives as well from the memories they stir of movie glories past, when sweeping historical spectacle was a cinematic commonplace. Then again, it may simply be the crazy nerve of this project that disarms one's critical faculties: the French and Indian Wars; a protagonist named Hawkeye; a red-coated English army marching in straight stupid lines through the forest; wily Indian enemies skittering through the underbrush, a menace not only to the soldiery but to virtuous femininity as well...
Coupland's chapters, like MTV videos, news-report soundbites and teenagers' attention spans, are brief and swift. Only a few pages long, they jump from subject to subject and rush to feed us snippets of information from Tyler's life. Much of Shampoo Planet is about its protagonist's remembrances--of his carefree childhood on a British Columbia hippie commune, of his vacationto Europe, of his alcoholic, get-rich-quick stepfather, Dan. like the Chapters they comprise, they follow each other in rapid-fire bursts. But what chiefly propels the plot is the choice Tyler must make between his hometown...