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...with a wonderfully calm subtlety. The man never sweats or, for that matter, raises his voice when the pressure is on him, which it almost always is. At most, he registers anxiety with an almost imperceptible flicker of his eyes. When we meet him, the firm's leading litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) has suffered a serious meltdown in Milwaukee - in the the midst of taking a deposition he has stripped naked and run out babbling into a snowy parking lot. Arthur has been defending an Agrochemical giant called U/North in a class action suit and has discovered a document...
...been transformed into a rehearsal area. During the renovation, HPT moved its performances to the Zero Arrow Theatre. The Hasty Pudding Social Club, which relocated to 2 Garden Street during construction, will remain at its current location. The theater’s first performance, an absurdist drama written by Arthur L. Kopit ’59, will open on the new stage in November. The Silk Road Project, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, will also perform in the space later that month. HPT’s annual show will return this spring to the 12 Holyoke...
...rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...
...latest mop-up job is a toughie. During a deposition of plaintiffs in a corporate malfeasance case his bosses want to be settled quickly, the firm's top litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), has gone nuts, cavorting naked in a parking lot. The most superficial familiarity with The Parallax View and other political-paranoia movies of the 70s - or with the crimes of EnRon and other big companies - will cue the viewer to expect corporate dirty tricks at the root of Arthur's frayed mental state. The two men will find ruthless adversaries both in the corporation's chief counsel...
...whole raison d'être of your cultural mark. There's a certain energy or stamp or mark on a film that says 'this is a Hong Kong film.'" And not just those. Last year, French director Luc Besson publicly criticized the Weinstein's handling of his animated feature, Arthur and the Invisibles: "They changed so much of the film and tried to pretend the film was American...