"Dominoes, et dominoes, et dominoes Popsies historical axle-grease, exacts bubbly fins crock lavender..." Say what? It's a line from Tom Stoppard's DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH. Familiar plays-- but definitely strange in the hands of Tom Stoppard, who's reinterpreted them by inventing a new language! WHISTLER IN THE DARK THEATRE has mounted a spare, sure-handed production [...]
This movie, is quite simply, THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN IN MONTHS! In the run-off toward the OSCARS, CLOONEY and THE DESCENDANTS are a shoe-in for nominatons. So sit back, relax, and prepare for a Hawaiian vacation-- but not the usual exotic escapade. In THE DESCENDANTS, filmmaker Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS, ELECTION, ABOUT SCHMIDT ...) with [...]
We are happy to report that Allie Loftis, a Wayland Middle School student who had gone missing over a week ago, was found safe this morning in Jersey City, New Jersey. The investigation of the circumstances surrounding Allie's disappearance and her subsequent activities is now in the able hands of the police. On behalf of [...]
CHECK THIS OUT! A sample of the 2011 British Arrow Awards for best commercials! I remember when Johnny Carson (pre-Leno, Letterman, Kimmel, Conan, Fallon, etc.) used to show the world's best commercials-- and sometimes things didn't exactly translate. Remember when COKE's tag line was "Coke Adds Life!"? We howled when that was translated into Chinese as: [...]
A revolutionary production of Ibsen's classic A DOLL'S HOUSE featuring really tall women and really small men--40-53 inches high to be exact!--recently had its Boston premiere at ARTS EMERSON's Cutler Majestic. MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE took the absurdity and inequity of women who are treated as dolls in a society of "small" men--and made it the [...]
HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY WEEKEND! Here are a few extra "Joyce's Choices" for 11/11/11 and beyond! DENIS LEARY TO HOST 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF EMERSON COLLEGE’S LITERARY MAGAZINE: PLOUGHSHARES Authors Alice Hoffman, Sebastian Junger, Sue Miller, Dennis Lehane, Chef Ming Tsai, Bruins’ Cam Neely and more to present the “Best of” Ploughshares on November 14th on the [...]
I have just received the following notification from the Wayland Superintendent and Principal of the Middle School, and pass it along to all of you in an effort to help bring Allie Loftis home. Please read: "Last Saturday evening we sent out a message that Allie Loftis, a 13 year-old eighth grader at Wayland Middle [...]
J.EDGAR-- Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort--is a mess from every point of view with the exception of Leonardo DiCaprio. He is one brave actor. As J. Edgar Hoover-- the creator and first chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-- DiCaprio survives despite layers of makeup, a melodramatic jumble of a script, bad accents, and tonal [...]
I have had this idea for a long time. Years in fact. I have always been fascinated by words I overhear-- like the universe speaking to me. I am not schizophrenic; but I am hearing things. Sometimes I'll be walking down the street, or passing through a crowded room, or store, and I hear something [...]
