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...full disclosure: he's also my brother) has over 1,000 people on a Yahoo e-mail list called Sitcominfo he uses to promote his plays. He forwarded Bill's e-mail to all of them. The first mob didn't go entirely according to plan. Someone, later dubbed Squealer, tipped off the police who were waiting with a van outside the target, a Claire's Accessories shop. Nevertheless, 20 or so people made it inside and the mob was born. "The biggest shock is how it spread," says Bill. "Within days people started groups in other cities...
...idea is to squeal if you see it. Hundreds of us crowd the "tree that looks like an elephant," squinting, tilting heads. A cry attracts a crush of butting bodies and cameras, trying to steal the squealer's view of this miracle of botany. A sort of stop-start rhythm develops. "Eek!" jostle, click. "Eek!" bustle, click. I can just about make out what all the fuss is about. The banyan does have four roots that could be legs and a longer one that might be a trunk. But where's the tail? Or the tusks? Or the ears...
They were out to kill him now; it was in every eye that looked his way. Even eleven of the Twelve had realized Judas was the squealer, the one who'd sold the secret news that Jesus of Nazareth was God's Messiah--the coming King of the glorified Jews--and was here to proclaim it and greet the dawning of the reign he'd lead. And when Jesus took up the loaf and began to break pieces into a bowl, Judas got to his feet, hunched low and left the room...
...challenge in bringing Animal Farm to life is not creating verisimilitude--there never will be a realistic talking donkey--but giving cuddly animals noble and historic heft. The film does so with a wisely chosen cast of voices (Ian Holm stands out as smarmy pig propagandist Squealer) and eerie visuals, from the crudely painted ANIMAL FARM sign at the commune's entrance to the pigs' grisly show trials. You'll have a hard time setting a rattrap after seeing a scapegoated (scape-ratted?) rodent swinging from a gallows. The film retains both the Russian Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless...
...Theater director, to agree to stage Farm independently, not as part of the festival. Now Hall is raising a squawk: Censorship! No, replies Soyinka: the booking was scratched only to ensure that the festival does not "cease to exist." Rejoins Hall: Soyinka's rationalization was "double-talk worthy of Squealer," the propagandistic pig in Animal Farm...