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...something. I don't like George W. Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."... Sweet Charity, that frothy cream puff of a musical, goes up next weekend in the Loeb against the anything but frothy Kiss of the Spider Woman in the Agassiz. Verrry interesting. I wonder which will get more buzz?... Said creepy director Vincent Gallo of his Buffalo 66 star Christina Ricci, "She was okay when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic-either that or she was on cough syrup...
...traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach, they rarely drop the ball altogether, and all it takes is a quick blast like the sizzling instrumental "Spider-Gris" to get the pirogue floating down the bayou again...
Kiss of the Spider Woman...
Kiss of a Spider Woman is a drama of two men in an Argentine prison struggling not only to survive but to discover what is worth dying for. Director Sara Heller describes what attracted her to this musical, saying "it is not at all a 'typical' musical; it has something to say and says it with flare. Our hope is that the audience will leave haunted by the characters and the choices they have made." In addition to a superb plotline, also watch out for a chilling, sensuous score...
...often takes hundreds of spiders and the better part of a day to harvest enough venom--a few drops--to fill an order. For their trouble, Chuck and Anita each week send out up to three or four packages of frozen or freeze-dried venom, usually to pharmaceutical and chemical companies. It's a hard way to make a living, even when it is supplemented by income from odd jobs like the technical-adviser gig Chuck landed for the 1990 film Arachnophobia. So for most of the past decade, Chuck handed scaled-back day-to-day operations of Spider Pharm...