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...most difficult role in the play, Mowth demonstrated a fine sense of timing with Ballas' complicated speeches and an ability to recover quickly even when one of Ballas' convoluted lines momentarily escaped him. In the supporting cast, Pete Wilson '99 was very entertaining doing double duty as Savant and Thump, two of the funniest characters in the play. Other highlights included the perfectly constructed voices of Prof. Lear (Michael Katherine Haynie '99), and Hana, played to her airy best by Kate Wiswell...
...movie has enough plot (by Carter and Frank Spotnitz) to stock a half-season of shows. Let's see...a virus from aliens has been harvested and is about to be spread, by bees and corn oil, across the world--"a plague to end all plagues," whispers kook-savant Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who spends most of his time hiding in a fetid back alley hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
...hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...
...dropped as I read Gates' "diary," surely the worst prose ever showcased in a national publication. Is it possible? Could the captain of global industry be little more than an idiot savant? BEN MADDEN Los Angeles...
Game four went pretty much the same way, and I soon found myself in the "Cylinder" for the second time in a row. At the end of game five, the top two contestants (myself and a guy named Josh) took turns in the "Cylinder" answering our "Savant Categories" (his was chemistry, mine was "Star Trek"). I answered enough to keep my lead and so I won the whole game, which gave me a trip for two to Egypt and Israel and other assorted goodies...