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When one of my favorite teams is playing, you can usually find me screaming at the TV. Perhaps this is a function of parent indoctrination—my father taught me the J-E-T-S chant as soon as I was able to utter my first words—or perhaps it comes from living in London, where the fans at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane spend the entire 90 minutes of a match in unified song. Either way, I know what it means to root hard for your team...
Jack—played by Patrick J. Wicker ’13—is an appropriate foil for Little Red Riding Hood. Where she is adamantly inquisitive and at times even bloodthirsty, Jack is innocent to the point of utter foolishness. It is Jack’s encounter with the beanstalk that precipitates the tumultuous events of the second act. After “Ever After,” the number that closes the first act, the plot takes a turn for the darker...
...avoid the flashiness of noir cinematography, the piece is still set in 1956, and Hobbs and the production team have decided not to rewrite it. There is no good solution to the dilemma of when to set the film—to rewrite the script would amount to utter stylistic dismemberment, but to film “Lunatic” as a period piece endows it with a very different meaning than it would have had as a contemporary film in 1956. To place the resurrected “Lunatic” in the same category as, for example...
Despite the show’s title, Gervais is hardly its focus. Instead, it is Karl, whom—despite his utter lack of stand-up, writing, or acting experience—Gervais has called “the funniest man alive in Britain today.” Over the last decade, Pilkington has become Gervais’s pet project, if not his pet. He is a fool, and also a genius...
...mostly to prevent them from entering the city; indeed, U.S. troops may not show themselves in downtown Kandahar. "We can shura our way to success," a senior military official actually said. Really? Not if we're depending on the Karzai regime to deliver the governance goods. I must admit utter confusion; I've never heard the U.S. military talk so ... airily before...