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...gymnastics again. While these shows do a social good, not just by helping but also by telling viewers they have the power to help others, they portray a particular kind of social contract as well. There is a great deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders why people in a rich nation forgo college or surgery. The solutions to problems are entirely private...
...four, five, six, seven? " Before setting her sights on agent Skouris, McKenzie returned to Australia in 2003 to film the low-budget feature Peaches. She was the first to be cast in Craig Monahan's just-released tale about a troubled teen working in a small-town peach cannery - but as the central figure's stepmother Jude. It was a seismic shift for McKenzie, whose character ages 20 years. "She had to cross a bridge," recalls Monahan. "She's smart, she knew the time was right and this was a good role to do it in. She ran towards...
...Kaufman is handling This Is How It Goes, (which went down well in New York City and opens at the Donmar Warehouse on May 31 before moving to Bristol and Salford) with British actor Ben Chaplin in the lead as a man who comes back to his small-town home to break up the interracial marriage of his high school crush. "I have thought that, if somebody takes it the wrong way, I could get a brick to the back of the head as I'm leaving the stage door," says Chaplin, who found fame in Hollywood films The Truth...
She’s an aging actress with a loud voice who never quite made it anywhere on Broadway and settled into a life of teaching theater to small-town bumpkins like me. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed brassy broad is queen, I suppose, because we naïve little actor-types just worshipped her. Part of Frances’s mystique was her past contact with a special subset of actors to which Lithgow, this year’s Harvard Commencement speaker, belongs...
...longtime fan of Keillor's, I have often been struck by his meld of nostalgia with bitterness that reflects small-town life in the Midwest. We accept his barbs at our memories of narrow-minded ministers, spinster schoolteachers and children who try to comprehend the town's hypocrisy, simply because Keillor has the knack of laughing with us at our human frailties. He can make us think about our Minnesota forebears without hurting too much. Keillor is all of us who have left the old ways, but who recall the shimmering mists of childhood somewhere in the snow and wheatfields...