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...rises to this level of social commentary. In one scene, Roulleau defends himself by arguing that since Hamlet is fictional and scripted, he shares no responsibility in its events. Clamence responds by instructing the actors to portray some scenes from everyday life: two acquaintances exchange conventional pleasantries; two people vie to see who will hold the door for the other; a student pleads for an extension with her professor. As the audience listens to these stylized dialogues, we realize that Hamlet is no more scripted than the rehearsed set-pieces of our own private and public lives. Groundlings succeeds brilliantly...
...visually stark setting--Maine in the winter--oppresses with a further sense of isolation and remoteness. Perhaps intended as a part of Freundlich's tranche-de-vie attempt at a Thanksgiving that could really happen, this environment doesn't help us connect to the characters we watch trudging back and forth across the snow. While The Myth of Fingerprints should be commended for studiously avoiding a Hollywood treatment of the family drama, it can't quite conceal that where substance is wanting, it doesn't matter whether the surface is glossy or gritty...
Swathed in the beige adobe seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
Inside stores, Coke and Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and Lee jeans, meanwhile, hang in the windows of clothing sellers...
...STEIN is no Einstein, but the Nixon speechwriter, Pepperdine University law professor and eye-ointment pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council...