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COLIN: I do find a lot of American actors, quite creatively, use the text just as a starting point. We're much more fixed to the discipline of what's on the page...
...buddies at the local bar. Two major panels - one of him racking pool balls and one of him gesticulating -- make up the top and bottom of the page. Smaller close-up panels of Neven or clicking billiard balls have been "laid" askew around the page while little boxes of text ("Neven versus Dutch," "Five Games") draw your eye across the page in the correct sequential order. Consequently, in a convergence only possible in this medium, the page itself reflects the excitement and exaggeration of Neven's barroom tales...
Consider the new reading section of the SAT, which will feature, for the first time, at least one fiction passage on every test. In January, after they began perusing novels to find excerpts, text hunters at Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Princeton, N.J., firm that the College Board pays to write SAT questions, put together a list of books to be avoided when picking passages. On the list were 40 or so titles often assigned in good English classes--novels such as Animal Farm, Catch-22 and Native Son. ETS had a solid psychometric rationale for shunning the books: reading...
...story "Pan-Asian Sensation" [Oct. 6] misspelled the name of Turn Left Turn Right director as Johnny To. His name should be spelled Johnnie To. Also, Takeshi Kaneshiro's name in Mandarin should read Jin Chengwu, not Kin Chengwu as it appeared in the text...
Given these problems, the actors do a remarkably good job at dealing with the text. In particular, Caroline Jackson ’06 as Ouisa projects the bubbliness of a rich socialite while making it clear that her superficiality is nothing more than a projection, masking a warm motherliness beneath. Michael Moss ’03, as Paul, is so flawlessly charming—if anything, too likable for the part—that it can be hard to remember he’s a crook. And Jon Carpenter ’07 portrays Flan as an art dealer struggling...