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...solemn duty or an egotistic stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings--a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits...
...actors in this week’s production of “This Is Our Youth” shuddered as they watched themselves in a video-taped dress rehearsal. Their shyness was underserved: even in a casual run-through, they succeeded admirably...
...Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting him every step of the way during run-through sessions at CIA headquarters. And as it turned out, Powell didn't fight hard enough...
...typical run-through of Top Girls, one of several productions currently rehearsing for the Loeb Experimental Theatre, is initiated with an unusual ritual. The largely female cast and crew face each other in a circle and begin doing stretches. They start off with a relatively simple assortment of nerve-defraying arm extensions and breathing exercises, but soon begin emitting a guttural tribal chant. In moments, the scene of calm has erupted into a fervent sequence of chest-beating, head-twirling and tongue-extending, all done in approximate unison by ten normally rational individuals. Director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks...
...over to give Bhupati a little hint of what they could maybe do with each other on the futon when the movie ended. Though life may in fact imitate art, it appears not to do so as much like a trained monkey as Dillinger had hoped. After the third run-through of the fourth sex scene, she made her way to the door. However, to Dillinger’s excitement, she neglected to take her DVD with...