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4_________ WedNEsdAy, J anurary 24, 2001 A&E The CI ac I camas P rìnt Closer, a raw look at life, love, lust and loss ments of furious quarrels, poignant disturbingly familiar, the characters romance, and violent weeping were fumble their way in and out of their News Editor all powerfully and convincingly relationships struggling to deal with all their baggage. Though Patrick Marber’s Closer, playing delivered. at Portland Center Stage wasn’t as Alice and Dan first meet when seen through the lens of the infor shocking as I thought it would be she steps in front of a cab. Dan mation age, the archetypal sex in spite of its sexually laden dia meets Anna as she takes his pic roles of the characters remain the logue and situations; Instead, I ture for the cover of his new book same. found it a uniquely realistic, It’s interesting to watch the char about his then insightful and sometimes pain live-in Alice. He acters as they present one image to fully revealing comment On pursues iAnna their partners and another to those modern life, love, lust, and with the finesse they pursue. At the same time, they loss. of Hun, and in a try to discover their partner’s truth Marber’s play, set in Lon fit of vengeance, and they hide their own. Sometimes don around 1995, traces the for his spumed they even deceive themselves. It paths of four young profes advances, he seems the more they try to get the sionals in their pursuit of love even poses as truth from their partners the more and companionship. her in a chat they push them away. In a futile at- The characters: room called tempt to get Deidrie Henry Larry the doctor, played closer, they end “London selves in,and two, by Daniel Freedom up even further Fuck”. because it is so tragic Stewart (son of Patrick Masquerading as Anna, he apart. At one that you know that it Stewart), Anna the photog promises the unsuspecting point Dan asks, can all happen to rapher, played by Deidrie Doctor Larry that he'll make “What’s so great you. Henry, Alice the stripper, "him cum like a train." The au about the truth?” I think that at the played by Elizabeth Reaser, dience can read the dialogue In the last scene, end of the play you and Dan the obituary writer, on a big screen behind the set the characters fi are left with the played by Kevin Corstange, as the characters type it. He nally have noth thought that for $10 Kevin Corsia ng e ebb and flow around each arranges a meeting in the ing more to hide. you left with a fun other in a rapid succession aquarium where Anna regu Still, after their re night that provided laughter, Daniel Freedom of loving and leaving, meeting and larly photographs people. lentless pursuit shock, and thought. What more for truth, they nei- cheating. The scenes are superbly Throughout the action that Stewart could you get for $10? If you don’t acted by this cast, whose perfor is sometimes funny, mostly ther discovered it, nor knew how believe me, go see it for yourself. I mances are so passionate at times wrenchingly dark and at times much ofitthere was to know. think you will love it. that you can see the spit fly. Mo will be. The guy shows up and no _________ DAISY BAIN_________ tices this girl and makes a fool out Staff Writer Closer is a play that is provoca of himself by talking as provoca tive and private, yet put out into tive as he thought she was talking online. But his plan backfired the public’s eyes for all to see. From-the beginning, I was when the two of them actually laughing at jokes that I never would start dating and fell in love. Or do they? have thought to hear at From then on a play! I also saw im the play takes the ages of people strug viewer on an emo gling to find love and tional roller coaster sexual pleasure and re that you can’t turn alized how real it was for away from for two rea normal people to expe sons. One, it is so rience the same. funny to watch from The play Closer cen the outside looking in ters on four people on the positions they caught up in a circle of cheating and relation Elizabeth Reaser putthem ships. Everybody thinks they love one another only to find out the other person is better. This play shows to everyone, in a truthful and humorous way, that finding love is never easy and sometimes even down right painful. As one scene demonstrates, a man notices a woman that is not his girlfriend. In an attempt to flirt with her, and embarrass her, he goes online pretending to be her. He then engages in a very sexual conversation with another man and talks this guy into meeting her at the zoo - where he knows she STEVE NIELSEN. Award-winning poet New romantic comedy shows to read on campus for whom the wedding bells toll MATTSHEMPERT MAGGIE JIRASEK Feature Editor one of San Francisco’s most prestigious wedding planners trying to make everyone else’s dreams of love come true, but is too busy to have a love life of her own. One day, as Mary’s Gucci shoe gets stuck in a man hole and she is threatened to be run over by a runaway dumpster, marriage to Massimo Lanzetta (Justin Chambers), an energetic idiot who has just arrived from Sicily. On the surface, Mary and Steve know they shouldn’t be together but love and destiny al ways find a way. The Wedding Planner, a ro mantic comedy, is rated PG-13 Who makes sure your wed ding day is the most glorious and memorable event in your life, as well as an idyllic, overwhelming and love-filled occasion? There is only one person who can make all your wed ding dreams come true - the wedding plan ner. But what if the much- trusted planner and the groom fall in love and a showdown be tween love and logic begins? 77ie Wedding Planner, a Co lumbia Pictures and Intermedia Films presenta tion, is a mixture of old-fashioned romance and modern attitude Steve, played by Matthew McConaughey, meets Mary, Jennifer Lopez, after showing us what saving her from a runaway dumpster. * can happen if two people from different worlds handsome Dr. Steve Edison (Mat and will open nationwide Jan. meet and fall in love. thew.McConaughey) rescues her 26, Adam Shankman, one of from the near-fatal collision. Af In case you think this is an Hollywood’s most successful ter spending a romantic evening other one of those boring choreographers, and producers with Steve, Mary believes she cheesy romance movies, you Peter Abraham, Robert L.Levy, has finally found a reason to be can look, at it this way - you •Jennifer Gibot and Debra Del lieve in love. Her life is thrown might get some inspiration on Prete choose Jennifer Lopez and upside down as Mary discovers how to find your dream man, or Matthew McConaughey to por Steve is her client's fiancée. Just dream woman. My conclusion tray the two main characters, when Mary thinks it can’t get was, I should stay near those man Mary F.iore and Steve Edison. any worse, her father Salvatore holes. I might get stuck and be res Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez) is (Alex Rocco) pre-arranges her cued by the man of my dreams. Staff Writer Hugo, and Denis Levertov. McElroy did her graduate work in neurological and language learn ing patterns, then became the direc tor of speech and hearing services at Western Washington Univer Author and teacher Colleen McElroy will visit the college cam pus on Thursday, Feb. 1 for poetry and fiction reading in the Skylight Dining Room. McElroy is an award winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her works include: A Long Way from St. Louie - travel memoirs about a trip to St. Louis, Traveling Music - one of her eight poetry books, and her most recent book, Over the Lip of the World: among the storytellers of Mada gascar. McElroy was bom in St. Colleen McElroy will read from her Louis, and by the time she poetry on Thursday, Feb, 1. was 21, had lived in Wyo ming and Germany as well. Since sity. She earned a Ph.D. in then, she has done extensive travel ethnolinguistic patterns of dia in Europe, Asia and Africa. lect differences and oral tradi According to McElroy, she de tions from the same college, even veloped a romance with language tually becoming a professor of by listening to her English. grandmother’s She has re wind-up Victrola ceived many "I developed a and went on to grants, includ romance with study in the ing two Na language by listen Speech and tional Endow Hearing program ment for die Arts ing to at the University Fellowships, grandmother’s of Pittsburgh. two Fulbright wind-up Victrola." When she was in Fellowships, a her 30s, she took Dupont Visiting Colleen McElroy up serious writ Scholar Fellow ing, drawing in ship, a spiration from Rockefeller Fel many poets including Joseph S. lowship and is the recipient of Cotter, Anne Spencer, Richard the American Book Award.
