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...year-old in question is Marcel Marceau, recognized internationally as the world??s greatest mime. Since Sept. 10, he has presented at the American Repertory Theatre (ART), with the help of his seven-member Nouvelle Compagnie de Mimodrame, an evening of mystery and familiarity, of mirth, fright and above all, humanity...
...deeper problem is that Hollywood can’t escape the ages-old right-wing dictum that homosexuality is a perversion. It’s not that the predominantly liberal denizens of the world??s dominating film industry are homophobic. The problem is that by hiding representations of queers, be them human or shark, under a (pathetically transparent) veil of allegory reinforces queer-dom in culture as something that is adult, pornographic and too controversial to address directly. The question is, why can’t Lenny just be gay? Shark Tale’s makers already have...
...otherwise perfectly lucid individuals insist that the Europeans and their unmistakably anti-American cohorts don’t despise us at all. Crazy, I know, but I’ll continue for the sake of argument. This view attributes the world??s emulation of the United States not to a plan to eliminate our well-deserved dominant status, but to a feeling of admiration and a desire to share in our prosperity...
...latest book, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the award-winning Norton Anthology editor recreates a possible life of the elusive bard in order to postulate how Elizabethan England gave rise to who is widely regarded as the world??s greatest writer...
Some of the world??s top scientific minds—and all of their attendant eccentricities—piled into Memorial Hall for the “14th first annual” Ig Nobel ceremony, which celebrates scientific projects that “cannot or should not be reproduced,” said master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, who edits the Cambridge-based Annals of Improbable Research. The 10 achievements honored this year ranged from Karaoke to comb-overs patents to invisible gorilla suits...