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...stories would be without the self-deprecating and often profound figure behind the mic. But none of the five actors in “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell,” performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art Thursday through Sunday, were Spalding Gray. A middle-aged woman, a man with a foreign accent, and the colorful ex-mayor of Providence Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci, Jr., all stepped in to read Gray’s words. Yet this physical disparity was inconsequential; Gray’s words retained their appeal, capturing his life...
...world. He uses these stories as a sort of social critique of today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than that. Title characters like “The Woman Who Sat on the Toilet for Two Years” fail to enthuse. What seems to be Holder’s heroic effort to show readers what lies beneath the grim faces he writes about is ultimately unsatisfying. To say that he even succeeds in rendering his insipid characters relatable...
...Madea Goes to Jail”—Tyler Perry’s latest film adaptation of one of his countless plays—is not principally concerned with Madea, nor with her going to jail. After playing the quick-witted, ill-tempered, church-resistant elderly woman in two other films (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”), Tyler Perry has here subordinated the storyline of his most interesting alter-ego to a far less compelling central plot.Like Perry’s other...
...glasses, could almost have come out of the pages of “US Weekly”—were it not betrayed by the flat stare of pig eyes. By crafting these physical representations of women and then invoking their back stories, Hatry suggests that when a woman surrenders agency over her body, she relinquishes agency over her life. Pig flesh complicates the idea: no amount of makeup will turn “Victoria” or “Violette” into an attractive woman; no back story, however touching, will prevent the skin?...
...Grose, Dean • allegedly amusing e-mail depicting watermelons on White House lawn is sent by to fellow Orange County citizens, among them an unamused black woman • unawareness that the alleged affinity of African Americans for watermelon is one of the basic tenets of racial stereotyping is claimed by • why the - okay, Dean, have it your way - non-racist image of watermelons on the White House lawn is supposed to be funny goes unexplained...