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Edward P. Mcbride
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Fellini Flouts Feminism in Film
Man meets woman on tedious train trip. Woman makes eyes before ostentatiously setting off for the bathroom. Man follows, panting.
Blush With Shame
"Granted, novel-based movies don't have to be faithful to their books--and the makers of "The Scarlet Letter" sure put this
Bergman Festival Screens Rarely Seen 'Wild' Treat
You can tell a good movie straight away when you see it, because you can't see it too well. Ingmar
Friel Entrancing With Po-Mo Dancing
Brian Friel is the Shakespeare of post-modernism. His plays, roaming the interstices between past and present, between perception and reality,
Movie Not As Shakespeare Liked It
FILM As You Like It by William Shakespeare directed by Christine Edzard starring Edward Fox, Andrew Tiernan at the Museum
Nights in Damascus Are Filled With Tales
Damascus Nights By Rafik Schami Ferrar, Straus and Giroux $20.00, 263 pp. Tales, yarns, biographies, anecdotes, fables, government propaganda, gossip,
Not So Great Danes
Danish Paintings from the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. at the Busch-Reisinger Museum through
Colwin's Big Storm More Like a Drizzle
A Big Storm Knocked It Over by Laurie Colvin Harper Collins Press, $22.00 All angst-ridden American parents who question the
Consider Reading This
Consider This, Senora by Harriet Doerr Harcourt Brace Publishing $21.95 A tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and
The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna
Fuente Ovejuna directed by Sarah Toby Stewart on the Loeb Mainstage through October 30 The cliche contends that the Spanish
Ex Offers Slow Speed the Plow
Speed the Plow by David Mamet directed by Chris Scully October 21, 22, 23 David Mamet's plays celebrate the wide-open
Killer Culkin
Pets brained with blunt objects, toddlers gurgling for help in icy waters, small children lobbed off precipices: The Good Son
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Alive and Well
C an a conversation consist solely of questions? Do things happen to people, or do people happen to things? Are
Tempest Creates Bleak Landscape
Rain trickled down through the open windows of the Cabot Underground Theatre on Sunday night; it was raining in the
A River Worth Reading
In his first novel. The same River Twice. Chris Offutt Plungers directly into the sophisticate realm of high fiction. Directly,
