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...disease), played by Kevin Krim '97-'98, is trying to write an appropriate ending to his play so he can win a competition in Ancient Athens. As the lights go up, he and his main character, Diabetes (Adam Green '99), are discussing the philosophical implications of having Zeus appear at the end and save the day. This leads them into a dialogue, which forms the main body of the play, about the nature of man and reality. Among the perplexing propositions they argue over is the question,: is the audience real, or was it created by a writer...
...furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned in the newspaper, laments that he ought to change his name to something that "skews a little younger," like Zeus) and with his amusingly unhinged patients (one fellow believes his feet aren't finished; another thinks he's addicted to Robitussin...
...short, save your money. "Mighty Aphrodite" lives up to its name about as much as Woody Allen deserves the title "Zeus." Do not be deceived, fair readers. Avoid this whine and cheese party as much as humanly possible...
...begrudges the $1 million a year in federal funds for the upkeep of the Lincoln Memorial, with its huge, Zeus-like figure of the dead President by Daniel Chester French? Yet from there to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial--a focus of intense collective feeling and reverence today, but bitterly denounced by many a flag-wagging conservative as "a black gash of shame"-- there has scarcely been a significant American public sculpture commemorating things Americans care about that hasn't excited fierce opposition, usually in the name of patriotism and values...
Samual L. Jackson, Willis "Pulp Fiction" co-star, fills Vel-Johnson's empty partner slot as Zeus, a former cab driver, current Harlem store-owner and hater of thieves drug-dealers, and white people. After saving McClane's life early in the movie, Zeus comes along for the ride, helping McClane to solve the riddles and do the things that "Simon says." (The film-makers are careful to use every pun and nursery rhyme they can think of with the name Simon...