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...nurse's cape? Sounds like a job for Quentin Tarantino. But it's the work of an artist Bob Dole probably likes much more: PAUL SIMON. The singer-songwriter-ethnographer, who says he's "not generally a fan of musicals," is writing The CapeMan with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and plans to bring it to Broadway next year. In a publicity stunt casting call last week, young a cappella groups competed in a doo-wop contest. The winners, TROY JACK, JAMAL REED, KEN MCKLENDON and JOEDI IMBERT, had the voices for Simon's musical but not the attitude. They want...
Eliot took a leave of absence from November 21, 1900 to April 21, 1901, during which time Henry Pickering Walcott, Class of 1858 and Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation--the University's governing body--acted as president...
Besides Rosovsky and Walcott, most acting presidents in Harvard's history have been appointed during transitional periods between presidential appointments...
...blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...
...Walcott, the Nobel-winning West Indian poet whose 8,000-line Omeros hijacked Homer to the Caribbean, here packs the major events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen...