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PULSE BRIEF
‘A Light in the Dark' opens
at Lord Leebrick Theatre
The Lord Leebrick Theatre Company
will show an original production of "A
Light in the Dark," a play written and
directed by Ezra LeBank. The play will
make its first Eugene appearance
tonight, Friday and this Saturday.
"It's a sort of postmodern play
done in six parts," Lord Leebrick Man
aging Artistic Director Craig Willis
said. "Each part is a poetic riff on
questions of existence and the indi
vidual's place in the modem state."
Director LeBank has acted profes
sionally in Los Angeles and is
the founder of the Lynx Company
theater troupe.
Showtime is 8 p.m. and the play
will run for 95 minutes. Tickets are
$12 for the general public and $5 for
students and seniors. A portion of the
proceeds will go to the Oregon Social
Learning Center's homeless fund. The
Lord Leebrick Theatre is located at
540 Chamelton St.
— Ryan Nyburg
CLINTON
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harsh as it has been made to sound.
Clinton's seething rage is palpable but
directed and focused in a way that is
surprising, and the space in the book
that deals with the Monica Lewinsky
scandal is far less interesting than it has
been built up to be.
This holds true for much of the
book. Most of the details that make up
the very fabric of "My Life" seem petty
and unimportant due to their disturb
ing self-awareness. Throughout the
book the reader gets the sense that
Clinton was hyper-sensitive (as he
should be) of the importance of this
book and that awareness makes even
the most genuine moments feel phony.
For example, moments of intrigue
like Clinton's early political experiences
with the Boys Nation program are so
peppered with the names of friends,
which seem to have been placed into
the story like footnotes, that they effec
tively break the flow of the narrative
every other sentence. The extensive
name-dropping, while historically sig
nificant, is mind-numbingly boring. It's
like reading an account from the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independence
that focuses entirely on what make and
style of shoes the founders are wearing.
This tendency to randomly regurgi
tate the names of obscure family friends,
when combined with the stream-of
thought narrative Clinton has adopted,
also lends the prose a feeling of a thera
py session. Revelations that should be
poignant feel confessional, guilty and
shameful, and for the reader this acts
like a literary appetite suppressant.
Instead, what drags the reader from
Bill Clinton’s
957-page
autobiography
leaves
readers
unfulfilled
and over
informed.
Courtesy
one page to the next is not a swift-mov
ing story, or that driving need to find
the end of the story, but the hope that
on just the next page Clinton will
morph into a charming author who
evokes an emotional bond with the
reader the way he does as a public
speaker with his audience. The mo
ments when the mask falls away are
fleeting at best and these moments are
few and far between, and they seem to
mysteriously build toward a big reveal.
This moment when Clinton truly pulls
away all the collage of memories to sur
prise the reader with a wink and a grin,
is sadly an unfulfilled dream,
Steven R. Neuman is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
SEX MOVIE
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made all the funnier for being spoken
in deadpan Italian. Allen deftly mocks
American audiences' tendency to take
foreign films more seriously by hav
ing the character say things such as
(on the couple's wedding night)
"Frabrizio, go easy on my hymen."
The rest of the film maintains this
level of quality, hitting a wide range ol
targets with machine-gun salvos of
absurdity. The take on 1950s and
1960s-style game shows even uses real
television personalities and fuzzy
black and white film stock to record a
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show entitled "What's My
Perversion?" in which Regis Philbin
and Pamela Mason attempt to guess a
contestant's sexual hookup ("Do you
molest children?").
One particularly adept highlight is
the satire of B-movie horror cinema
based on the question of whether the
findings of doctors researching sex is
accurate. In this case the researcher is
played by John Carradine as a mad
scientist in full ham-acting mode. His
experiments include having a man
mate with a giant loaf of rye bread
and placing the brain of a lesbian into
the body of a telephone-company
worker. The sketch ends with Allen as
the hapless hero being chased across
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the countryside by a giant breast.
The sketch lovingly yet mockingly
uses all the film techniques and genre
trappings of horror cinema, some of
them so subtle that they might not be
noticed on first viewing. Carradine,
who has perhaps played more mad sci
entists than any other actor in the his
tory of cinema, makes fun of his reputa
tion while being perfectly deadpan.
While "Everything..." might not be
Allen's best film, it stands as one of his
most diverse and interesting projects.
He never made another film quite like
it, and few people have ever made
such a loving mockery of sex.
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