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...while we were a little snake bitten, but to get my first hat trick at the Fleet Center is a huge thing," Baker said. "I've been watching the Beanpot since I was a kid, but the big thing is that it helped get us into the finals...
...real story, in any case, is not Gore's fight in the primaries against Bill Bradley, but rather Gore's battle with himself - his struggle to subdue his demon of weird things, the dybbuk that, for example, made him wear that necktie last night (it looked like a poisonous snake from Brazil, or a a preschooler's Crayola work) or that prompts him to claim, from time to time, to have invented electricity, Velcro, or the fax machine...
Overall, however, Children of Eden more than recovers from these deficencies, largely due to the strength of the choreography and the staging. Eve's confrontation with the snake is brilliantly arranged. The snake begins as the tree of knowledge, then changes into a slithering six-person serpent. And the depiction of Noah and the Flood, in which the cast virtually becomes drops of water, is another of the first act's great achievements...
...beasts in history, such as Hermann Goring, have been sincere and knowledgeable art lovers. Moreover, being an important collector doesn't even show that you have halfway decent manners, let alone morals. Witness the late Dr. Albert Barnes, who before World War I became a multimillionaire from selling a snake oil called Argyrol. He bought a huge collection--175 Renoirs, 66 Cezannes, 65 Matisses--and built a foundation around them, but Philadelphia still remembers him mainly as a geek and a bully, and his theories about art as the honkings of a crank...
There's Something About Mary 26.4 Rush Hour 22.4 Saving Private Ryan 21.7 The Waterboy 21.7 You've Got Mail 19.4 The Truman Show 19.3 Enemy of The State 19.2 Stepmom 18.2 Snake Eyes 16.3 The Matrix...