Scene4 Magazine | letters to the editor

The producers have implied they didn't want to make an anti-government movie. It would've been too negative, too hard to sell. Instead they watered down Dee Brown's book to make it palatable to viewers. That may have been a marketable choice, but it sure wasn't a moral one. Wolf and company have said all the right things in published interviews. They may not even be aware that they softened Brown's emphasis. But a lack of conscious intent doesn't change the results. HBO's movie is prejudiced against Indians. To recap: According to "Bury My Heart," the Indians massacred the soldiers at Little Big Horn. The Army was merely emulating the tactics of the Sioux before them. Dawes had a noble plan to save the Indians. Sitting Bull cared more about his perks than his people. Modern life was too much for Indians such as Eastman to handle. The deaths of Sitting Bull and the Sioux at Wounded Knee were unfortunate mistakes. If that isn't an anti-Indian bias, I'm not sure what is. "Bury My Heart" takes a clear case of wrongdoing and muddles it. In this version of history, there are no good or bad guys. Flawed Americans, flawed Indians ... they're all the same. For the full review, go to Bury My Heart Review.
Rob Schmidt

Kathi Wolfe again makes me laugh and cry AT THE SAME TIME. How many writers can do that to such diverse muscle groups? She is a winner and an inspiration.
Grace Cavalieri
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Wish Gallas had included the Alenier/Banfield opera on the West Coast; yet this is a big hearted article. Apparently Gert and Alice have become mythic creatures, bigger than historical figures.This is good information on the advance of culture in our time...How growth occurs in creating legend.
Grace Cavalieri
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Thanks for this personal impression of this great music. It makes me sad how easy it is to forget the riches of the past and longing to remember .
Bergen
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Moussorgsky's lush, excited, ebuillent Pictures at an Exhibiltion is captured beautifully by Ned Bobkoff, who also understands the undertones (Istanbul's acqueduct!) of mourning and death that suffuse the piece. As I read, it's whole jungle of sonorities and rhythms came back to me in all its mourning and celebration, it's hope to immortalize in sound the copious atistic outpouring of now-dead friend Hartmann. Thanks, Ned!
Daniel Larner
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NEW CATALOGUE OF THEATRE PUBLICATIONS
This is the beginning of an extensive catalogue of theatre companies worldwide with their original production scripts in conjunction with Scene4 Magazine. These scripts are published exclusively at AviarPress/UK (a subsidiary of AviarPress Publishing) and will eventually be part of a comprehensive international catalogue of new, original, exciting theatre plays
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If you would like to submit your company and its scripts for listing in this catalogue, please click www.aviarpress.co.uk. Ask about the Special Terms for Edinburgh Festival Fringe companies.-2007

Once again I applaud you for a fantastic article! I appreciate your getting on board with this Les, horses are very special to me. They are so unique in the animal world. Anyone who has ever spent time with a horse would know these animals have personalities, spirit and are very loving and loyal animals. More so than many humans I've known. Definately, Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy! Thank you Les!!
Michele Dowell
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Man of Mystery. Herbie, from the newly released movie "The Sound Of Nashville, where the hell are you? Is there anyone that knows where Herbie Howell is? There are already people all over that want to hear him in concert live or on cd. He is more famous now than ever, yet nobody can find him. Herbie is GREAT. Please Herbie come back to us..??
Country Willie Edwards
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I have seen many of her productions in Paris, where she is well known and an audience hypnotizer. I have seen many, many Il Trovatore, but none to match the imagination and intelligence of her Paris presentation. The same can be said of her understanding of Boris Gudonov. From the opening moment you felt you were in the crowd on the stage and living the fears and hopes of the Russian people. I can see why the Russians have given her so much freedom and honor for the way she has captured the spirit of the people. We miss her in Paris while she gathers laurels elsewhere in the world.
Irving Levin
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