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...Incessantly silly plot revolves around friends Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack is in love with Algernon's cousin Gwendolen; Algernon falls in love with Jack's ward Cecily. Throw in a case of mixed identity, a missing handbag, a formidable aunt and a bunch of cucumber sandwiches and that's basically the plot of possibly the most prefect comedy ever written...
...though you probably don't need this disc to listen to them, and it doesn't particularly add to their brilliance to hear them together. They were great in the movie itself: a riot in Belfast set to "Voodoo Child" was amazing, and Daniel Day Lewis' visit to a bunch of dosed prison inmates listening to Marley was pretty cool...
...Tokio's enemies who write most vehemently. "B.H.L." dismisses much of the work on the poetry board as "a bunch of useless, profane, empty words." "Grow up people," B.H.L. advises. It doesn't take brains to use the world 'fuck'." Tokio's response in the margin: "What the FUCK do you mean by that? It does take brains to use it effectively. You're just afraid of the word 'cause mom & dad don't like...
Hard Ball: A Season in the Projects (Putnam; 317 pages; $22.95) tells the true story of an enterprise so hopeless and ridiculous that it bursts through the limits of ordinary absurdity and emerges, grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific...
...Degrees" greatest asset remains John Guare's dazzling script. With humor and affection, it pokes fun at everything from marriage ("My wife is a dada manifesto"), to Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven."), to Harvard students, ("Is that all I am? An investment?"). At the same time it captures with great compassion and understanding the tragic fears and disappointments in the lives of those who seem to have...