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I haven’t seen much theater lately, for reasons I may already have mentioned — so much is dull dull dull — but the dramatization of Heathcote Williams’s epic poem, “Sacred Elephant,” has got my attention as nothing has in years. The show, not yet officially announced, is coming in September to La MaMa‘s First Floor […]
Archives for April 2013
‘Gossip Column’ Cut-Up by Rooney & Beiles
Found in a drawer 44 years later. Still funny, too. And maybe you’ll recognize the references. Click the photos if you don’t know who they are. I almost forgot Dick Rover. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Topor Nails It: Drone Attack Avant la Lettre
And for further edification, there’s “A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood” about the “origins of the C.I.A.’s drone war in Pakistan” by Mark Mazzetti and “Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror,” about the policy of the “drone campaign” by Scott Shane. They’re part of a continuing NY Times series. Mazzetti’s latest […]
Death of a Mensch, Roger Ebert, R.I.P.
Rick Kogan has written a fine obituary, “A film critic with the soul of a poet,” with a beautiful lede: It was reviewing movies that made Roger Ebert as famous and wealthy as many of the stars who felt the sting or caress of his pen or were the recipients of his televised thumbs-up or […]
‘Taking the Piss’ That May Pass for Shakespeare
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I spent more than a decade reviewing theater for a major metro daily and I’d never heard the term “nubbing (or taking the piss).” Hmmph. Heathcote Williams shows how it’s done in a sweet folio about to be published by Gerard Bellaart‘s Cold Turkey Press. As my good friend N.O. Mustill says via email, “me […]