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...audience, with a compelling sense of truth that is lacking in the rest of his life.As “Angels in America” departs more and more from reality, the logic of insanity becomes increasingly attractive to the characters. As he slowly dies of AIDS, Roy Cohn, the villain of the play, is consigned to a hospital bed and, horror of horrors, the use of a phone with no hold button. “How am I supposed to perform basic bodily functions?” he howls.Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 manages to make Cohn?...
...time when Congress is looking to scalp those responsible for corporate misdeeds, the fact that Greenberg was invited as an expert - not a corporate villain - is a measure of his redemption...
...some responsibility for the fact that AIG employees got large bonuses which were, if effect, paid from government bailout money. Senator Chris Dodd, who may have had a role in allowing a loophole in a bill which let the AIG compensation slip through, refuses to be cast as the villain who let bankers make more money than they deserved. (See 25 people to blame for the financial collapse...
...hits, with movies such as “The Dark Knight” grossing over $1 billion worldwide. But such movies have also received widespread critical acclaim. The late Heath Ledger, for example, won Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Academy Awards for his portrayal of the comic book villain “The Joker.” “I think that more and more comic books are catering to the movie industry,” says Billy Tan, a Marvel comic book artist and guest speaker at last Sunday’s Boston Comic Book...
...Fisher, who works at the Huntington Theatre Company, refers to the set, which is modeled after actual ruins from the island of Cyprus, as having an “earthly aesthetic.” “‘Otello’ is a story driven by a villain,” Fisher says. “It’s a sneaky set, with lots of places to hide.” Iago takes full advantage of the set throughout the show; as he infiltrates Othello’s mind, he conceals himself with the many openings...