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Book Review: Risk, Rebellion, and Regret — Larry Charles Tells All in “Comedy Samurai”

September 14, 2025
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Larry Charles is by every standard a seminal figure in contemporary humor, on the tube and in movie theaters. Why doesn’t everyone know his name

Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam, Christoph von Dohnányi (1929-2025)

September 13, 2025
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Christoph von Dohnányi was a rare breed: a truly great artist whose mind never rested and whose standards never settled.

Book Review: A Killing with Everything But a Body – “Murder in the Dollhouse”

September 13, 2025
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There is a moral to this story, besides the obvious one, that murder is a horrible crime whether the body is found or not. If there are wealthy women with weaknesses to exploit, predators will find them.

Film Review: “The Long Walk” — A Vicious But Timely Parable

September 13, 2025
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Audiences prefer that political messages be buried under heaps of horror, but this film may be extreme enough to alert some viewers to look beneath the bloody spectacle.

Film Review: “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” – A Crowning Achievement

September 12, 2025
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The concluding chapter in the Downton Abbey saga is a classy and entertaining multileveled melodrama that features excellent production values and a script with a light touch.

Television Review: “The Paper” — A First Draft in Need of Revision

September 12, 2025
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This is a light, diverting show, well-suited as background fodder, but unlikely to garner the same following as “The Office” or “Parks and Recreation.”

Film Review: “Spinal Tap II” — Aging Rockers, Fading Laughs

September 11, 2025
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This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 11, 2025
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This week’s poem: Mark Pawlak’s 4 poems from “Special Operation,” Ukraine

Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival

September 11, 2025
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When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call —  a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.

Book Review: “James Baldwin: A Love Story” — An Intimate Biography

September 11, 2025
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We have a biography that reads like a novel in its range and intensity, a biography that forces us to dig deeper into our own preconceived prejudices and understand another man — a famous writer — in ways that neither he nor we might have ever thought possible.

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