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...lyric best, Williams gave us the powerful tension and drama of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In Vieux Carre, written more than 20 years later, it has become more difficult for the author to rise above melodrama. And while we've certainly come to expect the simplistic repetition of the themes, there still is a limit to how much we can stomach of lines like, "People die of loneliness ...loneliness is so thick in this house, you can feel it,' and "There's no defense against the truth...
...exhibits his art work on his front lawn. ("I used to have such a beautiful yard," said the wistful Mrs. Watson, who also used to have a nice piece of white rug before the Kid turned it into a hat:) The Kid makes found art. An aluminum shark, a tin cow, a pair of pants on sticks, originally meant to be a sculpture of John Henry but never finished, thus called Half of John Henry. The Kid makes suits out of Naugahyde...
...TIN ROOF; Showtime; August and September
...find something irresistible about a Southern accent. Those languid, drawling syllables just seem to make emotions sound bigger. That may be the least of the reasons why Tennessee Williams' plays have endured, but in the opening minutes of Showtime's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it is the most obvious. (The production, part of the network's "Broadway on Showtime" series, premiered on Sunday and will repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie the Cat, leaps into her syrupy, Scarlett...
...gift for vivid images helped make his post-World War II epic The Tin Drum into an international classic, but most of his literary fans will be surprised to learn that the talent of German Author Gunter Grass, 56, is not Limited to the printed word. A major retrospective of Grass's visual art-80 etchings, 43 lithographs, 96 drawings and 27 sculptures-has been put together for the first time in Darmstadt. In addition to seeing the fish, snails and cooks that inhabit his earlier books, exhibition visitors who ponder his clay Tablets will get an advance glimpse...