How to turn the bloody truths of the Iraq war into mass entertainment is a problem that has repeatedly bedeviled Hollywood executives. Even “The Hurt Locker,” which won the Academy Award for best picture last year, earned only $17 million domestically. Now Broadway, where the price of a ticket can be 10 times as much as at the multiplex, is taking its first major look at Iraq eight years after the invasion, with a play that starts with a behanding, descends into brutality and murder, and features no less than Uday Hussein clutching the severed head of his brother, Qusay.
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Robin William's Broadway War show.
Posted by: Glover |Tagged in: writing , war , theatrical allusion , theatre , Theater , story , Robin Williams , reviewing , playwrighting , plays , play , New York , ideology , broadway , audience , acting
Star Power Meets War’s Firepower
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: March 23, 2011
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Robin Williams in Rajiv Joseph's “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” More Photos »
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09
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Julie Taymor Out As 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' Director - Huffington Post.
Posted by: Glover |Julie Taymor Out As 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' Director
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10
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Spider-Man is a wild, sexed-up, Greek mythologized train wreck.
Posted by: Glover |http://www.slate.com/id/2284320/






First Posted: 03/ 9/11 10:05 AM Updated: 03/ 9/11 11:18 AM
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