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...employee who says he is a former classmate of Cho's provided AOL News with copies of two plays Cho wrote. They are achingly bad, the writings of a troubled young man; they suggest that Cho may have been sexually abused. In both plays, a schoolboy named John says he has been molested - in one case by his stepfather and, in a play Cho titled Mr. Brownstone, by the eponymous teacher. The John character in both plays repeatedly wishes his tormentor dead, although the molester in the play Richard McBeef kills John with his bare hands...
...bombers, kidnappings and, eventually, sectarian slaughter. The other reason was the televised trial of Saddam, which served as a form of group therapy, on a national scale. As they watched him in court, day after day, Iraqis grew less fearful of him. His frequent outbursts began to seem like schoolboy petulance, and when he was scolded by the judge it was as if the class bully was being sent to the corner by the headmaster. The trial reduced Saddam from an ogre to a mere mortal, then to a figure of fun and finally into a pathetic, shriveled...
...Scandal is melodrama trying to pass itself off as a slice of realistic life. But director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
...Pythons' youth, did a really bright schoolboy aim for Oxford or Cambridge? The reason - at least to those of us who know more about the Brit entertainment scene than any other aspect of U.K. society - was to perform in the university drama societies and meet people who could get you into the theater...
...years Maar and Picasso spent together spanned the most tumultuous events of the century, and the passion of their liaison reflected them. The show captures it in detail, from courtship?Picasso's scrawling of her name over and over like a lovesick schoolboy, her coy note accompanying a photograph: "I found a portrait of myself and as I seem to remember you asked me for one, I am bringing it to you"? to the darker paintings that hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery...