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...audience within the first five minutes of the movie, from their claymation appearance and vicious teamwork). The government has engineered these bats using a host-specific virus. These bats are meaner, much, much smarter than normal bats, and they are, to quote McCabe, "killing machines." God help us all. Precisely why these bats have been created and why they have been released on an unsuspecting populace are not questions that Bats troubles to answer. What Bats is primarily concerned with is just what the title would imply. Bats. Big, ugly, gremlin look-a-like, blood-sucking bats. Bats going...
...incapable. His characters, unlike Mamet's tough-talkers, are willing to show their own vulnerability. They are desperate to do so in some cases. And this is where Kellerman's production shines. Kellerman has an eye for portraying human frailty, for capturing the looks and muffled breaths that mark us at our weakest moments. What is most amazing is that he can make these looks and breaths seem as powerful in the 500 seat mainstage theater as they did in the infinitely smaller Ex. In an auditorium that was large enough to enclose a battle between two armies in last...
...spoken to janitors recently can attest to the fact that they are as demoralized as our guards last spring, just before the University broke their union and drove them out of our community. Janitors who have worked in our houses for as many as 20 years have told us that their wages have become so inadequate and their treatment so disrespectful that if Harvard offered them buy-out packages, they would take them...
...think majors are chosen for flexibility," Acker says. "The coaches make it clear to us that school comes first, and if you have a class or lab, you leave practice or come late to attend that class...
...help us come up with our characters, Spike had taken pictures of random people with a long-lensed camera on the streets of New York. We pieced our characters together from these images, by asking, "Who's Lotte? Who's Craig? Who are these people?" It wasn't about snubbing anyone, or taking down looks, or just creating a shocking effect. We just to find the people whose stories we wanted to tell. That's acting, which is really...