Word: bogosian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barbra's Funny Girl co-star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch 35. Cancel, in Hollywood-speak 36. "__'s Law" (governs computer power and cost) 38. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll author Bogosian 40. Richard ___ (Edwin Arlington Robinson poem) 41. Desert Storm cuisine 42. Gag response, informally 46. Humped bovine 48. Procter & Gamble chairman Durk, who is stepping down unexpectedly 49. 45-Down's org. 51. Double-Tony-winning director Michael 54. Ron's second chief of staff 55. The Army says...
...Shakespeare's insight into human nature cuts like a straight razor," says Eric Bogosian, one of the well-known playwrights commissioned to write sketches for Love's Fire. To be sure, the great plays still connect with us because they distill and dramatize great emotions, the kind that don't date. The best new productions of Shakespeare succeed by shocking us into thinking we're seeing something new--while convincing us, in the end, that...
...High Incident, a recently launched ABC police series (Mondays, 9 p.m. est). Fortunately, no character is named High or Incident. But despite a high-class pedigree--the show is produced by the Dreamworks team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, with creative guidance from monologist Eric Bogosian--High Incident maintains an embarrassingly CHiPs-like feel as its cast of eight Ray-Ban-wearing patrol-car cops meander about a fictional Los Angeles suburb responding to wacky calls...
Theater: From Edith Wharton's sex life to Eric Bogosian's sociopaths, one- person shows are the rage -- often literally...
Rare performers, like Bogosian, combine many of these charms. His Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead is part sketch, evoking several varieties of his trademark sociopath, and part musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...