Word: tragic
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile, comedian Steve Martin's 1996 take on the conundrums that the young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein might have faced, contains heterogeneous elements running from unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...
...prefer to play comic or tragic characters...
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. And while you're at it, don't let them grow up to make movies about cowboys either. Especially ones that place them in a pretty Southwestern light and solemnly invite us to contemplate their tragic inability to cope with the modern world...
Writer David Brock--the journalist who discovered Paula Jones--portrayed Huffington in Esquire as a tragic, muddled figure who is no longer even sure whether he's a Democrat or a Republican. But Huffington, 51, who wasn't talking to the press last week, told friends that Brock got it wrong. First of all, Huffington says, he thinks of himself not as gay but as probably bisexual: in other words, his marriage to the former Arianna Stassinopoulos wasn't a total sham. He insists that he was never unfaithful to her, with men or women. And he takes his relatively...
...bottling up feelings for years, gay people often come bursting from the closet with a single-minded intensity (think Ellen) that can wear a bit thin. But consider the alternative: an unhappy, dishonest Huffington could have continued to run for major public office. Now that would have been a tragic tale...