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...Williams describes Stanley as a “gaudy seed-bearer” neanderthal, but Nicholas’ Stanley is surprisingly sassy and alert. There’s never a moment here when Stanley doesn’t have the upper hand against his delicate foil, Blanche (Caroline E. Jackson ’06), and that’s an engaging way for him to play those exchanges...
Jackson’s Blanche, meanwhile, has her own novel spin. As the deranged schoolmarm on the run from a string of sexual indiscretions, Jackson doesn’t take the typical Blanche route and slide into madness during the play; rather, Jackson’s Blanche has fully snapped long before she comes on stage. All of her gestures are heedlessly artificial; all of her white lies are little eruptions of lunacy. Jackson never quite sells this Blanche; it’s a technically skilled performance, but her choices are always a little too easy—the ones...
...hands as they mounted their men and stuck lollipops in the boys’ mouths to the pulse of Lil’ Kim’s “How Many Licks” blaring out of the stereos. Perhaps the most shocking moment came during a Janet Jackson medley, as one dancer came up to her man from behind, fondled his crotch, threw him to the ground and grabbed his head and stuck it by her own crotch. A concerned mother threw her hands in front of her child’s eyes. White boys everywhere cursed their lack...
...watcher and doesn't really read the newspapers." JIMMY JAM, record producer, claiming Janet Jackson remained unaffected by the furor over her breast-baring Super Bowl stunt...
...desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country of My Skull (Vintage), which chronicles South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was recently made into a movie starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna...