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Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year...
Based on the obscure, reconstructed facts of her life, the movie documents Silkwood's story vividly, drawing in its wake a stunning depletion of the squalid life in her southern Oklahoma town, and graphic details of routine abuses at a nuclear power plant. It successfully avoids over-romanticizing Silkwood's...
Of course, the choice is not that stark; one has one's music and the Cabbage Patch too. Yet it is the news of the day that occupies most of the time, filling the hours as suddenly as helium. We may be wary of the press, but we are...
Nevertheless, Ruddygore is eminently entertaining, filled with the usual assortment of rapid-fire patter, romantic solos, and melodramatic ditties by the choruses. Perhaps one of the least known operettas, it has an intricately woven, often convoluted plot that contains more horror and violence than standard G & S fare such as...
The show runs for three full hours, and perhaps could have been pared down to a more manageable two to two and a half. Many of the superfluous, though funny, moments come during non-musical scenes, with the extravagant gesticulations of the characters, especially the chorus. During last Friday's...