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...Then Gibbs took the stage for his first White House press briefing, and promptly disclosed the official's first name. "We had Greg help you guys understand a little bit of that," Gibbs said, in front of live television cameras. Later a reporter asked Gibbs if he realized he had just disclosed the first name of the undisclosed official. "I do," Gibbs said, keeping his composure. "I'm tempted to ask you to see if you can get one person's name into the papers so people will think he might be a Brazilian soccer star." Unhappily for Gibbs, White...
...civil and class chaos of modern Mumbai; Benjamin Button, about someone (Brad Pitt, no less) who's born an old man and ages backward, reaching adolescence when most people are hitting senility. Both pictures have social agendas, but they are more vigorous and less predictable than the Broadway stage-based Doubt and Frost/Nixon. The Pitt movie has already taken in more than $100 million at the domestic box office, and Slumdog, already at $45 million, looks poised to create big currents in the mainstream...
...practically one-woman show, written and directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and running at the American Repertory Theatre through Jan. 3, is a surreal evening of intricate choreography, acrobatics, and optical illusion. At the start of “Oratorio,” the stage is dominated by its red velvet curtain and a large chest of drawers, offering little hint of the spectacle to come. Shortly after the house lights dim, though, a voicemail message plays in French and the top-left drawer opens. A pale, lithe arm extends into the darkness, a lit cigarette...
...successfully captured both Schultz’s desire to be tolerant and Phelps’ invocation of “God’s wrath” for homosexuals. The production used the Agassiz Theatre to effectively emphasize different scenes in the play. The space in front of the stage was often used for character interactions, literally bringing the audience into the dialogue. Scenes took place in the balcony, depicting phone calls between members of the Tectonic Theater Project and their interview subjects. Shepard’s funeral was especially impressive; cast members walked into the aisles of the audience...
...states of California, Arizona and New Mexico. The colors turn to red on the far western and eastern edges of the 1,241-mile Mexico-Texas border. In between, there are just small patches of red, since only 110 miles of Texas border fence are planned in the initial stage...