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A few naive friends try to console me, offering up heartwarming and bone-chilling tales about the stirring Cambridge-New Haven rivalry.
"I was raised to be charming, not sincere," says Cinderella's Prince to the Baker's Wife. It is an apt description of this production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical valentine to the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. The competent cast does a good job with the funnier...
There is also human nature, which, as Cooper's tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain...
America has had it all along too. We believe in freedom -- at the extreme, as passionately as Leatherstocking, who moves halfway across a continent in his 70s because he cannot bear the sound of axes felling trees. But do we believe in it because we are too good for anything...
Thus traditional children's tales are being set to a contemporary beat. "I been rapping with kids for a long, long time/ Even your parents know my rhymes," chirps a character called Mama Goose on MCA's Nursery Rhymes Rap. And although many new songs continue to deal with subjects...