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...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...
...back a whole range of social attitudes that are purportedly bygone. In Gilligan's Island (1964-67), for example, everyone kowtows to the millionaire, even on an island where his money means nothing. In Hazel (1961-66), a normal middle-class family can find, afford and need a servant-and not because the mother is working or has more than one child. In The Odd Couple (1970-75), two men of a certain age can live together, in traditional masculine-slob and effeminate-fussbudget roles, without an automatic assumption that they are homosexual...
...orchestra as an active participant instead of merely an accompanist, powerfully influenced later generations of composers. In the works he created with Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte-Mozart's genius transcended the conventional boundaries of master-servant comedies and lovers' farces to create a new kind of psychological music drama...
Quentin Crisp, 73, author (The Naked Civil Servant), on why he is listed in the telephone book: "Otherwise, you're stuck with just your friends...
...BOTH ARE NOW, in the eyes of the law, felons. The Boston jury came back with a guilty verdict for the public servant on February 2 The Newport, R.I. dozen issued its "guilty" judgment for the public figure on March...