Why did playwright David Henry Hwang and composer Huang Ruo take on the story of the 2011 suicide of 19-year-old Private Danny Chen? “Opera deals with big themes, with epic themes. … It’s very comfortable dealing with tragedy, with death and, of course, with love, also,” the playwright said, and the composer said, “This was an American story.”
Tag: 06.01.18
The Melissa McCarthy Puppet Movie Wins Its First Round Against ‘Sesame Street’
The movie, directed by one of Jim Henson’s sons, is a little different from the Sesame Street many of us know. “The trailer alone features violence, prostitution, drug use, and sexually graphic scenes. But none of that was the focus of the suit filed last week by Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit that produces Sesame Street.”
This Might Sound Odd, But In 2018, It’s Jane Fonda’s Time
But there is still a strong campaign against her. “Fonda’s incandescence has been deliberately dimmed, even in 2018, when the day seems to have arrived in which, as George McGovern predicted in 1988, ‘Jane Fonda will be fully atoned for anything that happened in connection with the war.'”