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EMMA THOMPSON LAUGHS -- A hearty, conspiratorial, practiced laugh -- as she listens gleefully to an American telling her that her comic sex scene with Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy was shown on New York City's X-rated cable show Midnight Blue...
...always thought of Emma as our generation's Katharine Hepburn," says Martin Bergman, an English writer who wrote the Branagh-Thompson Peter's Friends with his wife, the U.S. comic Rita Rudner. Bergman cites "the poise, the professionalism, the ability to perform comedy or drama with equal skill, the ability to create female characters we know and recognize, and whose personalities begin with their minds rather than their cleavage...
...Sandman could easily have played the character as nothing more than an asshole. But he manages to humanize Linus, allowing the audience to actually empathize with a rich, spoiled rock star looking for a way to escape. Sandman provides a semi-serious counterpoint to Fortunato and Sun's comic antics...
Director Jane Nichols, from the American Repertory Theatre, shows a sure hand in keeping up the play's pace and controlling the sometimes frenetic energy. Although some comic moments blow by too quickly to appreciate, the timing is generally impressive and the endless entrances and exits are surprisingly well-synchronized. Also impressive is the vivid red, green and black set, designed by Derek McLane, which allows the cast to revolve in a whirlwind of pointless but comical activity...
...often the concept of Jihad is used an example of Islam's supposed barbarism, If we look at the teachings of Islam as opposed the malpractices if Islam, we will find that Islam prohibits the killing of innocent people. In fact, the prophet Mohammed, which the author of the comic strip so readily makes fun of, prohibited the killing of noncombatants in times of war. Not only were noncombatants not to be harmed, but also the razing of land and the destruction of trees or other means of livelihood were prohibited...