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...hard for an actor to go wrong if he's true to the words August Wilson has written. When I played Troy Maxson in Fences on Broadway in 1987, the speeches simply guided themselves, they're so well constructed. August was a poet before he became a playwright, and poetry is still part of the language his characters speak. You don't always hear people talk like that in real life, but you wish you could...
Those family confrontations--when the mighty forces that August gathers on the stage clash, either with words or with action--are the scenes that are hard to shake. Just look at Troy. The way he bashes his soul against other souls is illuminating. I always felt he was one of those characters I wish I had really known. August says that when he writes he leaves some blood on the page. You can't get that stuff out of yourself without hurt. It's not therapy; it's more like revelation. He often talks about the pain of writing...
...adaptation of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Before that, Jason Lutes' first of three volumes on Weimar Berlin ("Berlin: City of Stones") made our best-of-2000 list. Now add to that the first of a seven-volume retelling of western civilization's original epic, the fall of Troy, in Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze...
...large scale "Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships" ($19.95; 224pg; Image Comics) merely tells the back story to Agamemnon's attack on Troy. But this includes the story of Paris, a shepherd who, upon learning he's the lost son of Troy's King Priam, lustily kidnaps Sparta's Queen Helen. Preparing to retaliate, Agamemnon spends three years scheming to gather the thousand ships and heroes prophesied as pivotal to victory. One of these, Achilles, has been hidden among the female charges of a minor king to protect him from his bloody fate. The book ends where most others would...
...your door, looking for money. He's living out of his car in Houston, and he wants $100 million for a dotcom to do something not even the Library of Congress has done--put 50,000 scholarly books online. "The venture capitalists just looked at me and laughed," says Troy Williams...