Thursday 19 September 2002

categories: Hostage to Crap

Burn This is my favorite play by Lanford Wilson; I first came across it in acting class looking for a piece to develop into a monologue. I really wish I had seen the original John Malkovich performance, and every time I re-read the play, I keep imagining the scenes with him in it. Joan Allen never came clear for me as Anna, the dancer turning to choreography in the prime of her career, and I don’t know the actor who first played Burton. I saw an off-off-Broadway production three or four years ago, the last night of its run, but was not too impressed: the Pale actor was clearly overacting, realizing it, and overemphasizing the cursing and weeping. Most of the audience was aged, and were rather appalled. I shrunk in my seat to watch it. Hot l Baltimore is another Lanford Wilson play I love to re-read. Never seen it in production though. I caught a local production of Talley’s Folly on my birthday (alone, boohoo) that was fairly good. It’s a small play with two characters that lends itself to small theaters. The last I heard, Lanford Wilson was trying to collaborate on a screenplay for Burn This, but I have not been checking for it. Revival Works A Transformation. A sensational cast led by Edward Norton and Catherine Keener presents an eye-opening, soulful revival of Lanford Wilson's portrait of disconnectedness. By Ben Brantley. [by way of RUL’s presentation of New York Times: Arts] [Whoops, spoke too soon. more information on what Mr. Wilson has been doing of late.] 11:33:47 PM    comment []

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Someone seems to be googlin’ for Joe Marques of Winter Hours today. At least seven times. Sorry, he’s not here. Last time I saw him he was promising me he’d repay the money I loaned him (I don’t remember how much) and thinking about living in his farm in Spain his grandfather or somesuch bequeathed him, um, in 95 or so? You might want to try calling ASCAP which sends him a check every once in a while. If you were just looking for anecdotes, well, one I never finished and one I did. I hope that helped. —Allan the Ever-Helpful 5:29:14 PM    comment []

categories: Computationally Minded, Hostage to Crap

At the Whitney, Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures.[New York Times: Arts] See the computer code that created the digital art. Mirapaul’s attitude denigrates the idea that computer code can be a creative expression, the same sort of attitude that is criminalizing DeCSS, certainly an elegant piece of code. 5:05:32 PM    comment []

categories: Hostage to Crap

Currently reading: John M. Ford’s The Last Hot Time. The Chicago gangland scene if Elfland were drifting in on the cities of the world; a young heartland paramedic travels to the bright elflight of the big city. Currently on the stack: Frank M. Robinson’s The Dark Beyond the Stars, which seems to be set in a similar or even the same universe as “The Oceans are Wide’, which introduced me to this author. Currently eyeing: Summerland by Michael Chabon, the author of the Kavalier and Clay book, which I have also been eyeing. 4:52:07 PM    comment []