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...decided to recast the age-old archetype on a modern stage like so many authors, playwrights, and bards before them. The fresh angle in Boyle’s case, though, is that this isn’t a puppet show Christmas special or a child’s folk tale??this is reality. As scripted and replete with emotional cues for obedient audience members as her journey has been, Boyle is still a real person with a real back-story. It’s this reality, lurking behind the crafting inherent in all “reality?...
...first successes was a 1968 novel called “A Case of Need” about an abortionist. From that point on, many of his works focused on warning of the dangers posed by emerging technologies, netting him a label as a “cautionary tale?? novelist.He is probably best known for his books “Jurassic Park,” “The Lost World,” “Congo,” “Sphere,” and the movies they became, though I would argue that...
...must have seemed like a good idea: take a familiar tale??the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure...
...began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale?? was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about “well-behaved women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared...
...isn’t the first time Marsalis has used music to foster social discussion. “Blood on the Fields,” his 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, explored the history of slavery and his 1999 chamber work “A Fiddler’s Tale?? leveled biting sarcasm at musicians who “sell their soul” to the corporate “devil” that is the music industry. But none of this history can prepare listeners for the vicious social and political criticism of “From...