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...Saturday morning before sunrise the crumbling YMCA on Beatrice Street near the Durban waterfront resounds with music and foot-stomping. Once this South African port city on the Indian Ocean hummed day and night with Zulu stevedores hauling ship cargo. Now in the small hours, the docks are quiet, but inside the Y, isicathamiya choral groups are pulsing. Isicathamiya (i-see-ca-tah-me-ya) encompasses elements of Zulu ritual celebrations and American gospel and ragtime. Opening for concerts in the late evening, the Beatrice Street Y offers a dim, sweltering performance hall one flight up crooked wooden stairs...
...years, had been wanted by the FBI on 51 counts of tax evasion and "trading with the enemy" in what was deemed the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, valued at over $48 million. Ever since, he has been living a rather comfortable life in his multi-million-dollar waterfront villa in Switzerland--where he was free from extradition...
...makings of an absorbing, complex intrigue, although so far its psychologically flat characters are nowhere near as intriguing as EZ Streets' (or even NYPD Blue's). We've seen O'Neill's bulldog lawman too often, as well as the hackneyed Noo-Yawk elements: the title, the waterfront scenes, the fast-talking thugs constantly declaring their ethnicity, swearing, spouting colorful cliches or all three ("Kiss my underpaid Irish ass!"). The dank, moody tone is dead-on, though, and a strong cast includes the welcome David Strathairn as the stressed-out head of the FBI force. It's hardly the cure...
...There's hot water and electricity, and I'm looking out over the waterfront right now and it's beautifully lit. But many people have stories of personal losses suffered as a result of sanctions, and there's no doubt they've set Libya back a few years...
...difference between drama and classic tragedy is that in a drama people seem to have a kind of active role in what is occurring on the screen. So in something like On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando, you know, "There's a right thing to do Malloy and a wrong thing to do!" And all this becomes a sort of moral parable. He can either act doing the right thing or act doing the wrong thing, and that's pretty much the way the world is established in that film...