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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Mar
31
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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
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Robin Williams in Rajiv Joseph's “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” More Photos »
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08
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Famous World Ideologies, as explained by references to Cows
Posted by: Glover |Famous World Ideologies, as explained by references to Cows
25/08/2010
- Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
- Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
- Bureaucratic Socialism: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
- Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
- Pure Communism: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
- Real World Communism: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most “ability” and who has the most “need”. Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.