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...remembrance of those days of liberation and excess segues into a recollection of the coming of AIDS. The men depict a landscape of fear, ignorance, and sorrow. Wayne Corbitt, a Black performance poet and play wright, begins to cry as he recalls the his lover's death of AIDS. It's a difficult moment, painful to watch, but one that demonstrates the extent to which the men in the documentary bared their souls for the camera...
Speaking yesterday at a private luncheon in North House, poet and author Maya Angelou encouraged students to use their intellectual talents to better society, according to those who attended...
...play made its debut on Broadway in 1976 with John Gielgud as a scruffy but glib old poet and Ralph Richardson as the addled "man of letters" who has invited him home. Last year it resurfaced in London with Pinter in the Richardson part and veteran comic actor Paul Eddington (TV's Yes, Minister) succeeding Gielgud. Last week it returned to Broadway with Jason Robards as the bonhomous householder and Christopher Plummer as his versifying guest...
...sized holes, fluttering with an army of white paper banners. This is the battleground itself, a place where writers tack up their poems, and critics tear them down-figuratively, never literally--or offer advice. The warriors: anonymous scribblers. The shot: a verse like this one, by a mysterious poet, "Tokio Rose...
Winger is unlikely to change, now that she is a full-time mother with a revived career -- earning critical kudos for her role as poet Joy Gresham in Shadowlands and a Golden Globe nomination for the aptly named A Dangerous Woman. "I really don't care," Winger sighs, in her champagne-and-cigarettes voice, when the subject of her reputation is broached. "I'd rather have the freedom to say what I want. Sometimes I wish I were more graceful, but, hey, I'm not -- though I'm working on it. And frankly, I'm more interested in people...