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...movie version of a play which John Guare's writing and Jerry Zaks' direction had already rendered perfect. Yet Six Degrees of Separation is a highly successfully and engrossing film which cleverly capitalizes on the show's cinematic possibilities while remaining incredibly faithful to its witty and insightful text...
...Christ were holier than others. The latest round appears in The Five Gospels, which, parodying the red-letter Bibles that display the words of Jesus in red type, prints the supposedly authentic words in red and prints the rest, in descending order of credibility, in other colors. The text is a breezy new colloquial translation (see box). Precisely 82% of Jesus' words are judged inauthentic...
...schizoid staging reflects director Howard Davies' determination to do something new vs. the insistence of the estate of librettist-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on replicating the 1956 staging. Most impiously, Davies hints that Eliza leaves Higgins forever, as in Shaw's Pygmalion. That idea fights the musical's text and, indeed, its boy-meets-girl form. The text and form win the brawl. But nothing in this show is close to a knockout...
...accident in the lobby of a London hotel only ten days ago. He upbraided me for what he called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which had no basis in my text or in my head. He said he believed me. But, clearly, he didn't believe me enough to forgo writing a letter to The Crimson (December 10), and what a letter! The letter compares me to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the hoariest of gambits to try to shut someone up, but an insidious...
...Museum very carefully in The Harvard Crimson of November 29. I also read a response by Leon Levy on December 10 and Professor Frank Moore Cross on December 13 in which they write that Peretz imputed anti-Semitism to Professor Lawrence E. Stager. There is nothing in Peretz's text to justify this claim. Indeed, doing so, it seems to me, only adds confusion to an already confusing, and extraordinarily difficult, situation. W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities