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...turf are in danger of being priced out--of both the rental and sales markets. "I have several friends who are seriously considering moving to other places because the economic pressures are just too great," says Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, adding that Mary Ann Singleton, his protagonist in the series first published in the Chronicle, couldn't afford to rent in San Francisco today. Singleton, like Maupin, lived for a pittance in a rustic roof apartment with sweeping views of the bay. "I spent my 20s in San Francisco simply grateful that I could...
...strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...
...Brien. My brother and I shared a passion for the work of Ray Harryhausen, the second great Hollywood master of stop-frame (also called stop-motion) animation. Now almost entirely supplanted by digital modeling and animation, the technique was expensive and difficult. A flexible model of the creature-protagonist was placed in a miniature set in front of a locked-down camera. The model was moved a fraction of an inch and a photo was taken, a photo that constituted one frame of the finished sequence. The arm or the legs or the head of the model was then moved...
Tall order? Well, consider that last year, B.U.F.F. lauded an locally made short called Titler, an absolutely brilliant low-budget singing-Hitler-in-drag conceit, consummately crafted in every respect. Not content to simply croon vulgar showtunes for mere shock value, the film’s protagonist alludes to genuine psychological flaws within his character, giving his songs a thread of narrative while breaking barriers of taste that only shock jocks and the Wayans Brothers dare approach—and for far less thought-provoking ends...
...prune Bill Clinton down to a stump and he rises every time from his own ruins. It's happened many times before, it's his motif - death and resurrection. He turns up like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral. "Coriolanus," being a tragedy, had to end in the protagonist's death. Clinton is incapable of tragedy. What he needs is a new project...