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...production is a two-act, 14-scene concoction of songs, dance routines, and comic interchanges, each inspired by a facet of the of the long-running strip. They include the baseball game, Snoopy's supper, and Chuck's kite foibles among others...
...crowd with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking, even as it makes At Close Range a sort...
...ninth-century handbook for spiritual reflection. After rounds, they meet for a midday service of psalms and prayers at 12:30 p.m., followed by a lunch of soup, salad, and bread. At 5:40 p.m., they have choir practice, with evensong at 6:00. After that, the community has supper, and then, on talking days, they have recreation at 7:00 p.m. "We all go up to the top common room, chatter for half an hour, and make cocoa. If somebody has received a distinction or is departing, then we have drinks," says Father Francis B. Dalby. The day ends...
...Turandot for London's Royal Opera House, have been willful. But in The Juniper Tree he has had the good sense to emulate the haunting imagery and striking tableaux that are Wilson's hallmarks. The tree, whose branches agonizingly split apart as the father dines lustily on his unholy supper, is pure Wilson; so is the unexpected apparition of the first wife, aboard what appears to be a rhinoceros, as the guilty stepmother's conscience afflicts...
Best of all, however, Potluck never tries to pass off its apocalyptic weltanshauung as anything more than good fun. The dire message is there for those hungry enough to find it, but the operative word is zany--thus the title song about the supper that features as its chorus the line, "You could bring tuna casserole or even Jello...