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...characters, themes, and even melodies of “tick, tick…BOOM!” and “RENT” will enthrall fans of the latter Broadway hit. Even on its own merits, the Adams production brilliantly pushes its characters to their most comic and tragic...
...found yourself, as you practice the role, becoming meaner?CS: Yes, actually. I go home to my roommates and they find that I’m very strange and very aggressive.RR: There’s a lot of death in this play. What’s your favorite tragic death from another play or movie?CS: I don’t really watch bloody movies. I watch thrillers, but not horror movies or anything like that.RR: What’s your favorite movie?CS: I like “The Shawshank Redemption,” “American Beauty...
...people—playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.’” Sacks tries to get to the root of this peculiarity by bringing us into the eccentric, sometimes tragic, and sometimes moving world that he first introduced in books like “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” a world populated by Sacks’s patients, many of whom have neurological disorders like amnesia...
...shame this is the standard reaction we have to our problems. And the even greater shame? That such foolishness had to distract us, me included, from the tragic end of a life that held so much promise...
...Gevisser's treatment, Mbeki emerges as a tragic figure. The book's title refers to a Langston Hughes poem that Mbeki, warning of growing popular anger at persistent inequalities in postapartheid South Africa, quoted before Parliament in 1998: "What happens to a dream deferred? It explodes." But Mbeki has been unable to bridge the divide, and that failure has bolstered support for the earthy populist Zuma...