Hollow Man Rating *** A must see Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by Andrew Marlowe With Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Joey Slotnick, Mary Randle, and William Devane. By Jonathan Rosenbaum Apart from Space Cowboys, Clint Eastwood’s enjoyably auteurist swan song, Paul Verhoeven’s latest feature, Hollow Man, was the only […]
Tag: Vol. 29 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 10 – 16, 2000
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Sir
SIR, Bailiwick Repertory. Too blasphemous for the faithful, too kinky for the vanilla, too vanilla for the thrill-seeking, Scott Lee Heckman’s Sir is an underachieving how-to workshop for those uninitiated in the ways of a gay leather bottom pain pig. A flip chart maps out the narrative vignettes that constitute this one-man hour-long show, an […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories On July 4 at Coney Island, 101-pound Kazutoyo “The Rabbitt” Arai of Japan beat defending champ Steve Keiner (400 pounds) in the annual Nathan’s international hot-dog-eating championship. Arai gobbled up 25 in 12 minutes to Keiner’s 16. Slim Japanese people have frequently won the contest, which struck Keiner as “one of God’s mysteries,” […]
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Hollinger Sells Out–Will the Sun-Times Cash in?/Conventional Reporting
This may be about more than the money. Hollinger International is selling off all but one of its major Canadian newspapers, and it could be the deal that finally punches Conrad Black’s ticket into Britain’s House of Lords. Black is Hollinger’s chairman, and his $3.5 billion surrender of Hollinger dailies in Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, […]
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Com Ed Substation on Block 37
You have to look up to see the sculpture that adorns the only building on Block 37 that escaped the bulldozers 11 years ago–the Com Ed substation. Hidden in plain sight near the top of the structure is a male figure in a loincloth holding a thunderbolt in each hand while standing astride a group […]
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All Together Now
Renato Esquivel at Arte de Mexico, through August 22 Charles Kurre: It Happens Every Tuesday at Perimeter, through August 31 By Fred Camper Many postmodern artists have responded to our culture’s image glut with uncritical acceptance, creating pastiches that suggest these artists can’t tell the difference between an elegant ceramic pitcher and a soup can. […]
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A Most Dangerous Method
Early in his career therapist Alan Jacobs admired the ideas of Transactional Analysis guru Jacqui Lee Schiff. In the years since, he’s come to see in her extreme practices echoes of the authoritarianism that created the Third Reich.
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Still Watching, McDonald’s, McDonald’s, McDonald’s, and The Starman
STILL WATCHING, MCDONALD’S, MCDONALD’S, MCDONALD’S, and THE STARMAN, TinFish Theatre. There’s not a single actual play among Makoto Yamaguchi’s three purported one-acts, whose lack of content makes them seem mere demonstrations of competence in a second language. Yamaguchi, born and raised in Japan, has done himself no favors by directing his own works, highlighting their […]
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Chi Lives: in the land of the fire makers
Ed Lace’s guided walk through “Evanston’s Potawatomi Past” begins and ends in the Kendall College parking lot. On the fringes of the blacktop, just past the encampment of Toyotas and Hondas and Jeeps, he points out the plants that would and would not have been here when the earliest Americans arrived: “Locusts, no; Chinese elm, […]
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Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE, WNEP Theater Foundation, at the Playground. In this world premiere, California playwright Eric Eberwein uses a familiar tactic: he creates a slightly cartoonish world whose comic distortions show us a truer portrait of our foibles and flaws than a more realistic work would. The folks at Second City and playwrights like Maria Irene Fornes […]
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Savage Love
I just finished reading your response to Lonely and Suicidal, the blue-collar man having a hard time meeting women in the Bay area. (LAS is the guy who threatened to kill you, Dan, if you made fun of him, remember?) In your response you stated that perhaps LAS’s inability to meet women in the Bay […]
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Pierre Dorge’s New Jungle Orchestra
PIERRE DORGE’S NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA The long-term success of any artistic enterprise depends equally on seemingly conflicting virtues: adaptability to new influences and adherence to an initial creative vision. Twenty years ago Danish guitarist Pierre Dorge’s New Jungle Orchestra arose from the confluence of his interest in West African music and his respect for the […]
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Can’t You See I’m Working?
To the editor: I was very disturbed by the July 28 article “The Welcome Wagon’s on the Blocks” in which I was repeatedly misquoted by the writer, Sergio Barreto, on the response of north-side neighbors to the Old Town School of Folk Music and their recent Folk & Roots Festival. Rather than accurately quoting my […]
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Sticky Fingers
I’ll have the soup, a T-bone, and that fancy salt shaker, please.