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...Middleton's The Widow, the title character is no virgin, and neither is the male protagonist. Ricardo announces immediately that he's had sex with 1,000 women - 500 of them other men's wives. Such a man is unimaginable as the romantic lead in a Shakespeare comedy...
...third season, this self-described soap opera has turned into the last act of Hamlet, with corpses littering the stage. After the deaths of several supporting meerkats, Flower--the show's matriarch and protagonist, a furry female Tony Soprano--died of a snakebite defending her pups. A few weeks later, Flower's long-suffering daughter Mozart--a fan favorite who was abandoned by her mother and lost several pups--was killed off camera by an unknown predator. Grief-stricken fans held online vigils, created Diana-style tributes, even suggested the deaths were faked. (Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance--they...
...Come the fall, and the studios think filmgoers are in a gentler mood. So we get the more traditional mode of movie romance - the kind Hollywood specialized in for ages before it went out of style in the 90s - but which now might be called chick comedy. The protagonist is still a man (the moguls seeming to believe that no actress draw the big crowds), but romantic connection is the goal. And the tone is on the soft side. Chick comedy is about men compromising: trying to be nice, keeping secrets, coping with frustration and embarrassment, finding the middle...
...Greek tragedian Sophocles placed his mythical protagonist Oedipus in Thebes, and later Colonus, but never in Florida. However, modern playwright and actress Maureen Angelos—member of 16-year old theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers and co-author of the play “Oedipus at Palm Springs”—doesn’t give a damn about Sophocles. According to Angelos, her goal is “dismantling the patriarchy one show at a time.” Angelos, accompanied by the rest of the Five Lesbian Brothers, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver?...
...essence, Tindle becomes a character in Wyke’s latest detective story. And with the help of surveillance cameras and earpieces, he directs his unwilling protagonist through a series of gothic exercises, including murder and burglary. Quickly, the night descends into a power struggle between the two men, each trying to deceive and humiliate the other...