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Film
Forget It, Jake, It's Court TV
Was Roman Polanski a pedophile or merely a patsy? Wanted and Desired argues the case.
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 23, 2008
Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO a month before its theatrical...
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Film
Men Will Be Boys
With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 23, 2008
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the win-at-any-cost NASCAR driver...
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Film
Oh, Canada
Guy Maddin pays homage to the tundra of his youth in My Winnipeg.
By J. Hoberman
Published: July 23, 2008
Guy Maddin's frozen reverie on Canada's "Gateway to the West" is barely defrosted by the warmth of the projector bulb. My Winnipeg opens with a montage of newsreel and a bit of...
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Stage
More Is Less
Crowded Fire's latest tries too hard to be funny and deep.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: July 23, 2008
There's a perverse universal principle that states that the harder one tries, the more likely one is to fail. It's only when one stops putting in so much effort that things...
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Stagecap
Tartuffe
By Christopher Jensen
Published: July 23, 2008
The 17th-century comedy Tartuffe—probably the best-known of Molière's plays—was a controversial sensation in its day, and it retains much of its power to...
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Stagecap
The Lorca Summer Festival: Blood Wedding
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: July 23, 2008
Plays by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca can be tricky to produce. They juxtapose stylized prose with poetic verse, and are wide open for creative physical...
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Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Will Harper, Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton and Molly Rhodes
Published: July 23, 2008
American Joe Despite being given life by the same DNA donors and being raised in the same household, siblings often grow into people who bear little resemblance to each other....
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