Great Shape Kisses: A Sonnet by Donald Trump You know the risk groups, the older people. See, fortunately I’m not an old person. I’m very young and I’m in such perfect shape. I’m in such great shape. I went through it. Now they say I’m immune. I feel so powerful! I’ll walk into that …
How many times have you watched the movie Wizard of Oz? Me? I don’t know exactly, but… probably at least eight years in a row, on TV, every year from ages six to fourteen. All in black and white. Not just the beginning of the movie, in Kansas, before the tornado. But the whole thing; …
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As a journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, I interviewed Jim Carrey 20 times during the past 25 years. The last time I spoke with him was a few weeks ago for his Showtime comedy series Kidding, that aired September 9 to November 11, and was renewed for a second season. Carrey plays Mr. Pickles, …
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It’s been over 20 years since Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s epic two-part dramatic response to the AIDS crisis, burst onto the world stage. In spite of its age and the fact that it takes place ten years earlier (1985-6), this epic remains startlingly relevant and Marianne Elliott’s highly theatrical and insightful new production, now …
Ah the approaching New Year. A chance to look back at 2017 and wonder what, exactly, you can do differently. And if you’re a man, a chance to do the exact opposite of what you’ve seen come to the fore in this sordid, strange time that is 2017. When I think of men in film …
It seemed like the perfect set-up. A political comedy-drama written by the creator of Netflix’s House of Cards starring the elegant Oscar nominee Uma Thurman in her Broadway debut. That’s why it’s a pity that The Parisian Woman, the first major Broadway show to tackle the Trump administration, is such contrived claptrap. Listed in the …
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As the last millennium ended, when Suzan-Lori Parks penned her Red Letter Plays, two theatrical riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter, the horrifying issues of alienation, racism, misogyny, and class oppression that they raised were prevalent. Then we had a black president and for a few brief moments, it seemed we really …
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You would have to have been stranded in Antarctica or on Mars to have missed all the hoopla generated by the New York Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar. I did not see it, so I will not presume to assess its artistic merits or lack thereof. Suffice it to say, …
While it is not a direct response to the young Trump administration, the bracing and horrifying stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 arrives on Broadway at a startlingly appropriate time. Though published in 1949, the trends Orwell was spotting in political and social life are just as prevalent nowadays, even more so. …
Last summer, the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park Series unsuccessfully imposed a modern feminist slant on Taming of the Shrew by employing an all-woman cast. This year, they’ve launched the 2017 season with another contemporary take on one of the Bard’s classics with transgender casting, but this time the updating and non traditional …
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