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Edward P. Mcbride

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Blush With Shame

"Granted, novel-based movies don't have to be faithful to their books--and the makers of "The Scarlet Letter" sure put this


Bergman Festival Screens Rarely Seen 'Wild' Treat

You can tell a good movie straight away when you see it, because you can't see it too well. Ingmar


Friel Entrancing With Po-Mo Dancing

Brian Friel is the Shakespeare of post-modernism. His plays, roaming the interstices between past and present, between perception and reality,


Movie Not As Shakespeare Liked It

FILM As You Like It by William Shakespeare directed by Christine Edzard starring Edward Fox, Andrew Tiernan at the Museum


Nights in Damascus Are Filled With Tales

Damascus Nights By Rafik Schami Ferrar, Straus and Giroux $20.00, 263 pp. Tales, yarns, biographies, anecdotes, fables, government propaganda, gossip,


Not So Great Danes

Danish Paintings from the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. at the Busch-Reisinger Museum through


Colwin's Big Storm More Like a Drizzle

A Big Storm Knocked It Over by Laurie Colvin Harper Collins Press, $22.00 All angst-ridden American parents who question the


Consider Reading This

Consider This, Senora by Harriet Doerr Harcourt Brace Publishing $21.95 A tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and


The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna

Fuente Ovejuna directed by Sarah Toby Stewart on the Loeb Mainstage through October 30 The cliche contends that the Spanish