October 2008

The Changeling

October 31, 2008

Will the Real Clint Eastwood Please Come Back? “The Changeling.” Clint Eastwood, director. Universal/Imagine, 141 minutes. You’ve probably seen previews for “The Changeling,” in which Angelina Jolie pounds her breast as she wails, “I want my son back!” before she is carted off to a psychiatric prison ward. The previews promise corruption in the police [...]

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Ease on Down “The Road”

October 28, 2008

“The Road.” Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 241 pages. In the century after this nation was born, families headed west along paths with names like the Oregon Trail, carrying their meager belongings in wagons or handcarts. In the century that followed, those dirt trails gave way to tarmac and the roads became Highways 70 and [...]

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All My Sons

October 3, 2008

“All My Sons.” (1947) Arthur Miller, playwright; Simon McBurney, director. Schoenfeld Theater, Broadway, limited run. Starring John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson, Dianne Wiest, Katie Holmes. “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s powerful play about family ties, corruption, and lies set just after World War II, opens with a massive wind storm that knocks over a large tree [...]

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