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...that, at Judd University, all the freaks and geeks get a turn to shine in the school play - while Rudd, the one guy who kind of looks like a movie star, is relegated to the chorus? I've finally figured it out, now that I've seen John Hamburg's I Love You, Man, which is not an Apatow production (but observes all its rules) and in which Rudd finally gets a starring role. It's that Rudd is a handsome nebbish, a fellow programmed to be agreeable, soft, semi-cuddly, in a movie universe that not only doesn...
...movies came less frequently after that. She played roles supporting Jodie Foster (Nell), Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap) and Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan), and appeared with a whole parliament of female stars, including her mother, in the 2007 Evening. But the stage was Richardson's place to shine. In David Leveaux's sturdy revival of Anna Christie, she jettisoned Garbo's singsong Swedish inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she made Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still standing defiantly tall...
...spell, she was a revelation in Trevor Nunn's take on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. The plot is high harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free her from the marital cage. But Richardson let star quality shine through, with a grandeur audiences had been hoping for since her youth. Virtually channeling her mother, she had all the intensity, and nearly the magic, of Vanessa Redgrave in her early radiance. (In an ironic and infuriating example of life imitating art, Redgrave was last on Broadway two years...
...LOVE OF THE JIG?At the March Party, strangers and friends alike joined hands, took each other by the waists, and spun each other ’round and ’round to the upbeat rhythms of a live musical ensemble. While some, like Corcairdhearg members, did shine in their element, other novice Irish dancers had just as good of a time laughing over missed beats and stumbled steps. “At the root of it, it’s a traditional, cultural, fun, social, rhythmic, musical activity that I love,” says Fallon...
...A.R.T. continue working together, the theater scene at Harvard will become more cohesive,” Stone says, “and there will be more occasions for students to have experiences in the professional theater like this.”In other words, let the sun shine in.—Staff writer Ali R. Leskowitz can be reached at aleskow@fas.harvard.edu...