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Items by By NEIL GENZLINGER
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Television Review: Searching for Justice, Settling for Truth
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“The Judge and the General,” on the PBS series “P.O.V.,” follows the efforts of a Chilean judge to bring the dictator Augusto Pinochet to justice for some of the crimes committed by his regime.
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Theater Review | 'Elizabeth Rex': Shakespeare Cast Party by Royal Command
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
There’s a ripping good performance taking place in a barn on West 21st Street in Manhattan. The play is “Elizabeth Rex.”
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Television Review: Sword-and-Sandals Men With Back Story Revealed
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Discovery Channel’s look at “The Secret Life of Gladiators” sets history straight.
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Theater Review | '7 Stories': Man on a Ledge, Interrupted by Neighboring Oddballs
Posted: August 12th, 2008, 1:08am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The young actors of the Strain Theater Company are giving a nicely executed account of Morris Panych’s play “7 Stories.”
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Theater Review | 'Twelve Ophelias': Get Thee to a Pool, Girlfriend
Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:57am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Twelve Ophelias,” a free summer show outdoors at the McCarren Park Pool, is too fragmentary to be much more than a curiosity.
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Television Review | 'The Largest Chinese Restaurant in the World': 700 Orders of Moo Goo Gai Pan? Sure. Is That to Go?
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:42am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
This odd little mini-series profiles a restaurant in Hunan Province that seats 5,000 guests, employs more than 300 chefs and goes through 700 chickens and 200 snakes in a week.
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Television Review: Intra-Species Dining, but Not on the Food Channel
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:15am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Jurassic Fight Club” makes dinosaurs entertaining again.
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Television Review | 'Lord’s Children': Casualties of Civil War, Unto the Next Generation
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:13am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The language barrier makes it difficult to read fully the youths profiled in “Lord’s Children,” a “Wide Angle” installment about some of the youngest victims of Uganda’s long civil war.
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Movie Review | 'CSNY: Déjà Vu': The Politics of Song
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 2:32am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“CSNY: Déjà Vu” has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it’s documenting a tempest in a teapot.
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Television Review: That Madam Plans Lateral Career Move
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The main achievement of “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” is to make you realize just how accurate Andy Warhol was: 15 minutes is quite enough for people like Ms. Fleiss.
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Theater Review | 'Scenes From an Execution,' 'Crave' and 'Somewhere in the Pacific': Hearts and Minds at War in a Triple Bill of Plays
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:10am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Potomac Theater Project puts on three plays during its summer residency at Atlantic Stage 2.
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Television Review | ‘China’s Stolen Children’: Sold by the Thousands, Thanks to a One-Child Policy
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 3:17am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
This documentary reminds us that China still has serious problems and a government that doesn’t seem terribly interested in fixing them.
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Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Hour': The Family That Drinks Together Bickers Together
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
A. R. Gurney’s play must have seemed fairly thin when it had its premiere in 1988. Now it is in danger of registering as just plain annoying.
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Theater Review | 'The Witlings': An 18th-Century Satire Gets a 21st-Century Spin
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:42am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
The Magis Theater Company’s production of “The Witlings” has only one thing on its mind: laughs.
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Theater Review | 'Blink': After Seven Years Away, His Return Is Filled With Rage
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
A lot of well-acted rage by the three-member cast of “Blink” feels as if it’s bouncing off the walls rather than striking a target.
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Movie Review | 'Fade': A Journal of Sleeplessness, Recording a Fatal Illness
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:37am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
It would be nice to say that “Fade” cures the very thing that it’s about, sleeplessness. But that wouldn’t convey the pretentiousness of this psychological drama. -
Movie Review | 'The Other Half': On Other Side of the World, Life Is Still Upside Down
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:37am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
Ying Liang’s slyly subversive second feature takes awhile to coalesce, but once it does, it becomes an intriguing exercise in juxtaposition. -
Theater Review | 'Six': Plays by Numbers
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 9:29pm GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Six,” an evening of one-acts by Asian-American writers, has its highlights even if it is a bit too long.