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...expressive orator, Lewis has recently carved out a speaking circuit that has included the British Columbia Nurses' Union, the United Nations and Columbia University. With stories infused alternately with wit and heartbreak, he elicits both guffaws and gasps from his audiences. Relating one tale from his book, he described how he asked members of a community project growing cabbages how they spent their profits. "Why on coffins," they answered, almost surprised at the question. "We never have enough money for coffins...
...made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...Brown (Nicholas N. Commins ’09) and his daughter Lucy (Kathleen A. Stetson ’03), but these characters are all colorful peripherals to the central character and story of Macheath. Maybe the dominance of Macheath is only due to the fantastic performance of Ballard, whose wit, presence and voice give the opera a tremendous sense of power and severity whenever he speaks or sings, or even moves. His “Pimp’s Tango” commands the attention of both the wretched whorehouse and the captivated audience. His “Call from...
...Wit is no match for gloss in Vegas. Wynn canceled Avenue Q's run last month and will replace it with the splashier musical Monty Python's Spamalot in March 2007. For the nearly $2 billion national Broadway theater industry, which watched anxiously as show after show headed for Vegas, Q's failure is both lesson and opportunity. For some shows, maybe Seattle beats Vegas...
...thing a film critic (this one, anyway) should say of V for Vendetta is that it's a terrific movie. I love the look and the verve of the thing, the confidence of its epic design, its smart use of half a dozen noted British thesps, lending weight and wit to the supporting roles. Hugo Weaving gives the finest no-face performance since Eric Stoltz in Mask, and Natalie Portman, always an eye magnet, does her sharpest film work yet. In her sobbing scenes, when her will must be broken, then forged anew, she comes darn close to acting...