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This is the best eulogy I've read and a perfect epitaph: "Above his brilliance as a theatre and film director is Bergman's writing." Thanks.
Phillip Goldsmith
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This should have been titled "Fakes, Forgeries and The American Way". It's a very funny and sad article except for the slander of my hero, Howdy Doody.
Burnett
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And you can add these:
The "virtual" French in France who don't speak French
The "virtual" English in England who don't speak English
The Americans in Iraq who don't speak Iraqi
The Iraqis in America who don't speak Iraqi
The Japanese in Japan who don't speak
and, My Sister's "virtual" boyfriend
T. Rutten

...........Who was it who said that the U.S. dollar was the best example of Faux Art? I think I did.
Reverend Bones

...........I was surprised to hear that anyone was still painting pictures anymore. How faux is that?
Mave

...........The "virtual" breasts, lips, hips, asses and soon penises of everyone over 12 yrs.
T.

...........Seek and ye shall find in the revealed word of God.
Mark W.

...........I don't understand some of your references but they must be real because I understand the rest. Now you've given me a lot to think about and that's the worst "madness" of all.
Michele

...........Bravo! Tour de force! So what are you going to do for an encore rename the planets? Start with Uranus and work up.
Everlast

...........I don't understand your putdown of Bill Gates and his mother. They do wonderful work. That is the history of rich people in the USA.
Barbara Seligman

...........You should ask this--will the real Leonardo DiCaprio,George Clooney and Angelina Jolie's lips please stand up!
T.
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You're such a brave guy! As a "recovering addict" I just want to say it has been a lonnnnggg time and I miss my "tobacco-lover" soooo much! The hell with it all, I'm lighting up again. And I believe you--with the terrorist invasion of Bushism the dark clouds are gathering, and I am collecting as many packs and cartons as I can and cleaning up the bomb shelter that my Poppa built in the '50s. There I will retreat and hide in a cloud of enlightened smoke until the second coming--or will it be the third. George Orwell was right!
Linda N.
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It was an inspiring observation. The electronic screen is intruding in all human activities; that of performing arts, friendships, relationships especially family relations. The more we are conscious of this intrusion of technology, the better this globe for inhabitancy. Thanks for the article. I could read at this corner of the world, thanks to the devil of technology!!
Harikumar Padmanabhakurup

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And we've been sitting on the "never" spike for the past eight years, haven't we! Get the bidets ready for November, there's a lot to clean.
a not-so innocent Manhattanite
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I wonder if also that there were some who didn't want to have this indictment of the prison system at that time. I know that there have been a number of movies that were hard-hitting on the subject but I wonder if yours was just too hard. It sounds like the play-story is just too overwhelming and as you say too unrelieved. I hope we get to see it some day.
rjs
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Arthur Meiselman carefully elicits the dilemnas a playwright goes through when he or she tries to get beyond the tried and true, or the acceptable "experimental play". How the playwright "sees" the world of his or her creation is essential to the truth and power of a work on stage. I also agree that dramaturgs, literary managers and the rest of the mess are calibrating, to some extent, what goes on in the regional theatre. Operation MFA is in full swing. As to whether these arbiters of what works have enough life experience under their belt is another story altogether. Being inside a theatre in an office all day long is frequently gratuitous to head on, knuckle down and do it experience. A pox on these mouse traps!
Ned Bobkoff
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Is this about sex? Or is this your take on religion in the 21st century? It's certainly not about cooking, is it?
Nina (needs to know)
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To answer your questions - Cooking is about sex, and cooking and sex are about religion and religion is about cooking and as a great religious leader said once: "All life is a paté. Come up and see me some time."
Arthur Meiselman
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