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...Somehow I have a ticket to the RSC production of "Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway. I have a box seat, looking almost straight down on the heads of the players on the stage. I don't know the book - I read a rave review in the Times and wanted to see something "classy." I'm enjoying the Christopher Hampton dialogue very much, very clever, deliciously malicious. Suddenly, Madame de Tourvel collapses at the feet of Allan Rickman's Valmont. A shiver like a drug rush runs down my spine...
Take this new movie, for instance. When you first heard that Saturday Night Live's mega-popular Ladies Man sketch-generally regarded as one of the few remaining SNL sketches that are actually funny-was being turned into a movie, I'll wager the inflated cost of a movie ticket that this exact thought, or some variation thereof, flashed across your brain...
...school days as a joke on the pretentious art world of cinema. It is this irony that many viewers find sadistic and alienating in his work, and their cinematic experience turns cold and angry. But even though von Trier makes you want to throw your popcorn or rip your ticket, I think there is something valuable underneath this so-called charlatan's grin and captured in the lens of his camera...
When Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was barred from attending last week's presidential debate, even though he had a ticket, it seemed to symbolize his quixotic quest to gain attention on the national stage. The Commission on Presidential Debates, controlled by the two major parties, had issued orders that Nader not be allowed into the debate, his ticket notwithstanding. Nader, who was not allowed to participate in the debates by the commission, had no choice but to walk away...
...site, and because my computer's speakers are quite good and my apartment is small enough that walking to my PC to switch channels is not a big deal, I think I'll send the hardware back and save my $100. I'm spending my money on an airline ticket so I can find out firsthand what people are listening to in Paris and Prague...