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...played the lead role in "Skin of Our Teeth," written by then-Harvard professor Thornton Wilder, who would later go on to write such famous plays as "Our Town...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Covering the News From a Zany Angle of Her Own | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...likely to form emotional attachments while being required to inflict hurt and humiliation on one another. Rather than ask what message these shows send to their viewers, one should consider what irreparable damage they will, over time, cause to some of their participants, especially as the concept grows wilder and more out of control. BEN ALEXANDER New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...classic comedy (the first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer Max Bialystock and Matthew Broderick as nebbishy Leo Bloom--and Broadway's hottest musical director, Susan Stroman (Contact, The Music Man). Support them with a gaggle of Broadway backers so eager that one producer had to hold a lottery to decide which of his investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Brush Up Your Goose Step | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

Should he become a star, Del Toro will face the challenge Cage did: to focus his danger, his eye-catching weirdness, without losing it. Or he might follow his instincts and go even wilder--become the first leading madman. "Hopefully I'll get more opportunity to do things that will challenge me," says the young lion. "Hopefully I'm getting my freedom, coming out of the cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Performers | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Catedral de Sao Sebastiao and then all those Afro-Brazilian worshipers thinking about their own gods during Christian ceremonies. I wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock and Redemption in Rio | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

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