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...Schaeffer in "The Road You Didn't Take". But the lighter "Agony II" is a welcome break--it allows the audience a needed breather between powerful ballads. It is a funny male duet about fairy-tale romantic difficulties or the lack thereof. As one of the men notes, Snow White always had six other dwarves to choose from...
They're cute, they whistle while they work, and Snow White can always depend on them in a pinch. The Seven Dwarfs are among Walt Disney's most lovable characters. So why are they making some residents of a California neighborhood grumpy? When Disney unveiled a new corporate headquarters in Burbank last week, onlookers were startled to see that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some...
...monitor the way my body feels and make sure I am holding a steady pace. When my soles start to burn, my body starts to dehydrate and a seering pain rips through my legs, I have to keep telling myself that I did not run miles and miles through snow, rain and wind to wimp...
These may sound like the perfect ingredients of a Hollywood story, and in fact, Strange Snow was recently made into a film called Jacknife, starring Robert DeNiro. I did not see this film, so I cannot make any comparative assessments. But it seems as if Metcalfe's script might work better on the screen, which could lend a larger-than-life aura to this simplistic and somewhat thin story. Despite the generally good acting in the Leverett House production, descriptions of the war and the pain of remembering it might seem more convincing coming from Robert DeNiro rather than...
Perhaps Fox should have chosen a more challenging play and let Strange Snow stay in Hollywood, where it belongs...