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Since the commons opened on January 4, more than a half-dozen events have taken place in the semi-enclosed space. While most of the twice-weekly entertainment is musical, last Saturday featured a stand-up comic and this Thursday there will be a poetry reading, with jazz music afterward, according to Monica A. Henderson '99, the student coordinator at Memorial Hall...
Briefly, in the early '30s, gays were familiar screen types: "pansies" (often played by Franklin Pangborn) for comic relief and, more heroically, bisexual heroines (incarnated by Garbo and Dietrich) who looked thrillingly glamorous in their tuxedos and bachelor togs. That was old Hollywood's highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala...
...four obviously maladjusted individuals, all of whom are too grasping and unscrupulous to be endearing in any way, provides for an entertaining clash of personalities. At the same time, one cannot help but respect the characters for their passion and intensity. There is a certain sense of comic pathos to them; they are all, as characterized by Bradley, "unlicked cubs," which is why they are all in show business...
Does God exist? Is life really meaningless? Woody Allen ponders some of the deepest philosophical questions of all time in his "God (a play)." While he doesn't provide any answers, Allen does present a comic debate on the meaning of the universe...
Every character in the production performs a difficult dual role--that of both dancer and actor. Helena (Christina Elida Salerno) in particular does a spectacular job, her face and movements displaying the comical screams and melodramatic gasps that are not permitted to leave her lips as both Lysander (Alexander Srb) and Demetrius (Gino DiMarco) pursue her. Lysander and his true love, Hermia (Marjorie Grundvig), create a lovely image of passionate lovers fleeing from their confining world. The four "Rustics"--Bottom and his crew--deliver perfectly timed comic relief, and the royal couple of Titania (Natasha Akhmarova) and Oberon (Laszlo Berdo...