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...Raw star power does not ensure triumph -- this season's major musical disappointment, The Goodbye Girl, was shaped by comparably gilded names -- but Kiss is a proven commodity. The same production, with the same cast, opened in London six months ago to deserved acclaim. Some reviewers were uncomfortable with the subject matter, which includes torture, threats of anal rape, and a disquieting scene in which one man washes the other after a bout of poison- induced diarrhea. Admits Prince: "We couldn't have gotten this project financed a decade...
While Jane holds firm in her repulsion for Frank throughout the play, Ernest becomes increasingly attracted to Frank's id-dominated lifestyle. Ernest demands more and more personal information from Frank and adopts his raw speech patterns. Their identities merge to the point where Frank and Ernest literally switch places by the play...
That is the factual background of this vivid historical novel -- part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic. Like the author herself, a former ballet dancer and granddaughter of a white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with...
...audiences, male and female, who want in their movie diet something tastier and more varied than the raw meat of macho adventures and comedies. Filmmakers are kissing off half their audience on the assumption that men go out to the movies while women stay home and watch TV -- where women's and family issues tend to rule the sitcoms and movies of the week, and where aging screen queens (Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Candice Bergen and now Faye Dunaway) find a congenial home...
Another key part of Audubon's plan was to look at construction materials in terms of their entire life cycles. Where did the raw materials come from and how were they mined, extracted or harvested? How much waste was created and how much energy required to manufacture the finished product? What will happen to the product when it is disassembled? How safe is it for the workers in the building and how safe for the planet...