Word: romeos
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...cockpit: "Too low--terrain! Too low--terrain!" In the tense final sequence, two pilots aided by an off-duty colleague from the passenger section desperately try to land a DC-10 after an explosion robs the plane of its ability to make anything but right turns. Charlie Victor Romeo, a harrowing off-Broadway play in which actors recreate voice-recorder conversations from actual airliners that crashed, is every flyer's worst nightmare times six. And it's a stark example of an increasingly popular genre: plays drawn entirely from verbatim transcripts, interviews and other real-life words...
...drama, or is it Memorex? At their best, these plays are giving theater a fresh jolt of urgency and polemical passion. Even a nonpolitical work like Charlie Victor Romeo turns mundane dialogue into a gripping found-art commentary on the battle between man and machine. If only reality TV were this good...
...Massimo Romeo lowers his voice. "I'll be honest with you, I've got someone up in Milan who is putting in a good word for me." He pauses, looks around again, and adds: "And I know I've got the face." The bespectacled 39-year-old Neapolitan travel agent - who most definitely does NOT have a made-for-TV mug - can't speak for long. They're about to call his number. Italy's Grande Fratello consistently boasts Europe's highest ratings of any version of Big Brother. And now the program has come to bustling Naples...
...Rumors of a romance between Tian, 24, and Guo, 22-though it can never be officially confirmed or sanctioned-have only enhanced their celebrity appeal, leading one Chinese beverage company to film a TV commercial in which the pair, swigging a glucose energy drink, act out a scene from Romeo and Juliet...
...Part Romeo and Juliet, part Sopranos on crack, part Law and Order—Mystery Marinara mixes up an experience unlike any other. If you’re willing to spend fifty bucks for a surreal and hilarious experience, go for it—if you’re in the mood for Italian cuisine, however, good ol’ Sbarro’s wins...