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...Act 2 in the Obama Administration's three-act drama to keep the President's campaign pledge to lift the ban. The first act came last month when Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told Congress he had no problem with gays in uniform. With Mullen's backing, Gates on Thursday took the next step by relaxing enforcement of the ban. The final act - getting Congress to repeal the law - is months, if not years, away...
These days, Roth is about as prolific as he is grim. His most recent novels have all dealt in almost expository detail with the subject of death and its inextricability from the spectrum of human experience. “The Humbling,” with its three-act structure and its otherwise bare narrative that alternates predominantly between dialogue with Axler and his inner-monologue, could essentially serve as an allegory for Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. The entirety of the novel, from Axler’s time...
...film's solid three-act structure, Act 1 gets good mileage from the bitter-truth premise. In this world, a retirement home is called "A Sad Place for Hopeless Old People"; a motel is "A Cheap Place to Have Intercourse with a Near Stranger." There's even truth in advertising, as indicated by the slogans for Coke ("It's very famous") and Pepsi ("When they don't have Coke...
...screen, Elliot Goldenthal has proved himself one of the most versatile composers of his generation. In 1995, he adapted Shakespeare's Othello as a ballet. In 2003, he won an Academy Award for his score to Frida. In 2006, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his original three-act opera Grendel, which premiered at the Los Angeles Opera. And on July 1, he makes his return to the big screen with a score for Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Goldenthal spoke to TIME about the compositional challenges he faced in scoring the life of famed gangster John Dillinger...
...Bohrer ’10. “Since I was a little kid I would be trying on costumes or putting together scenes for my friends to act out on the playground,” he says. Bohrer has acted on the stage since high school and has appeared in over a dozen productions at Harvard, but his first foray into writing and directing a play, the three-act “Slipping Away,” will premiere at the Loeb Experimental Theater on Jan. 8. After acting for many years and attending summer programs at New York...