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Lyrics
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Everybody
comes to Hollywood
They wanna make it in the neighbourhood
They like the smell of it in Hollywood
How could it hurt you when it looks so good?
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Leftfield Open up
Ramblin' Man lyrics
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1.
Introduction
2. Work
with the play – Scenes in chronological order
3.
California, a map of the area
4. “True
West” - A useful site on the internet
5. “Today
Talks In Yesterday’s Voice” – Native Indian writing
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“Educating Rita” – The tragedy of the drama – How a drama works
7.
Euripides – Introduction to the greek theatre
8. The new
young american poets: Sherman Alexi – “I would steal horses”
9. Song
lyrics – Madonna: “Hollywood”, Leftfield: “Open up”
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True West Plot - Characters |
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True West
- the play is about the struggle between modern society and more
traditional ways of life. Lee and Austin represent two disconnected
brothers with drastically different upbringings who have come to accept
different norms. Against the growth of the city and the suburb, their
spirit of the Wild West, though diminished, still exists. They steal and
fight just like cowboys and highway robbers. Yet, both Lee and Austin
are scared and frustrated. Lee doesn't know if he should try to blend
into the new ways, and Austin doesn't know if he should go back to the
old ways. And this play about two writers writing about the West is in
itself a Western story. It has all the excitement and violence of a
rider's life.
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54th
Annual Tony Awards NPR,
Jun-02-2000
Jeff
Lunden reports on Sunday's 54th annual Tony awards. The awards are
an annual opportunity to celebrate American theater and to diagnose
the state of Broadway. Lunden says looking at the nominations in
categories like best play and best musical revue provides no easy
answers about the direction theater is headed.
...scarce.
In fact, only two new plays were produced directly for Broadway this
season, and both flopped. Two of the Tony nominees for best new
play, Sam Shepard's "True
West" and Arthur... |
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Stage Review
American dream gets a jolt in strong 'True West' By Ed Siegel, Globe
Staff |
November 2, 2005
WATERTOWN --
The irony behind the title of Sam Shepard's ''True West" is both
delicious and tragic. There is no true west, and even if there were, it
is not a place of discovery and re-invention.
In his 1980
play, Shepard seemingly celebrates the mythology of the Hollywood
western only to subvert it. He does so by investing two brothers with
the ability to dream the American dream only to pull the rug out from
under them.
Those
brothers, Austin and Lee, are as different from each other as blue
states from red. Austin is an Ivy League graduate, writer, and family
man. He grinds his beans before drinking his coffee. Lee is a yahoo,
drifter, and thief. He doesn't bother pouring his Wild Turkey into a
glass before guzzling it.
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Sam Shepard - Biography |
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Shepard, Sam, 1943–,
American playwright and actor, b. Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel
Shepard Rogers 7th. A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard
combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting
language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive
pop art vision of America. His settings are often a kind of
nowhere land on the American Plains, his characters are typically
loners and drifters caught between a mythical past and the
mechanized present, and his works often concern deeply troubled
families.
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Playwright, actor and director Sam Shepard has a new book of short
stories, Great Dream of Heaven. Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for his
play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his
role as legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. This
interview first aired Mar. 31, 1998.
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Wendehals - list of
synonyms:
Hyponyms of
noun opportunist
1 sense of
opportunist
Sense 1
opportunist, self-seeker -- (a person who
places expediency above principle)
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backscratcher -- (someone who is willing to trade favors or services
for mutual advantage) |
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bottom
feeder -- (an opportunist who profits from the
misfortunes of others) |
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carpetbagger
-- (an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; ``after
the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the
south'' ) |
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hustler,
wheeler dealer, operator -- (a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows
how to circumvent difficulties) |
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timeserver
-- (one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal
advantage) |
Coordinate
Terms (sisters) of noun opportunist
1 sense of
opportunist
Sense 1
opportunist, self-seeker -- (a person who
places expediency above principle)
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selfish
person -- (a person who is unusually selfish) |
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dog in the
manger -- (someone who prevents you from enjoying something that they
themselves have no need for) |
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egocentric,
egoist -- (a self-centered person with little regard for others)
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exploiter,
user -- (a person who uses something or someone selfishly or
unethically) |
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hog, pig --
(a person regarded as greedy and pig-like) |
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monopolist,
monopolizer, monopoliser -- (someone who monopolizes the means of
producing or selling something) |
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narcissist,
narcist -- (someone in love with themselves) |
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opportunist, self-seeker -- (a person
who places expediency above principle) |
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wordnet |
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Leftfield Open up *
Burn, burn
(x2)
Burn,
burn, burn...
Open up
Now open up
You lied,
you faked You cheated, you changed the stakes Magnet toss that pie
in the sky Unrehearsed, let the bubbles burst - All in all, a
dreaming circus - All in all, a three ring circus - A fuel in the
tea with parody - Affinity with parody Tragedy or comedy Probably
publicity |
Open up,
make room for me Now open up, make room for me
Lose
myself inside your schemes Go for the money, honey Not the screen Be
a movie star, blah blah blah Go the whole hog Be bigger than God
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Burn
Hollywood burn, taking down Tinseltown Burn Hollywood burn, burn
down to the ground Burn Hollywood burn, burn holywood burn Take down
Tinseltown, burn down to the ground
Down, into
the ground
Burn,
burn, burn Burn... |
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Williams Hank Jr: Ramblin'
Man
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I can settle dow-own and be
doin'just fine
Til I hear an old train
rollin'down the line
Then I hurry strai-aight home and
pack
And if I didn' go, I believe I'
blow my stack
I love you ba-aby, but you gotta
understand
When the lord made me
He made a ramblin' man.
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Some folks might sa-ay that I' no
good
That I wouldn' settle down if I
could
But when that open ro-oad starts
to callin'me
There' somethin'o'r the hill that
I gotta see
Sometimes it' har-rd but you gotta
understand
When the lord made me, he made a
ra-amblin'man. |
I love to see the tow-owns
a-passin'by
And to ride these rails 'eath god'
blue sky
Let me travel this la-and from the
mountains to the sea
'Cause that' the life I believe he
meant for me
And when I' go-one and at my grave
you stand
Just say God called home your
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All-Female 'Grease' Won't Hit Philadelphia Stage
NPR,
May 26, 2005 ·
The musical Grease is a perennial favorite at high schools
and community theaters. But an alternative production won't be performed
in Philadelphia because the musical's licensing agent has threatened to
sue. The agency says the producers violated their contract by casting
women in all the roles. Member station
WHYY's
Joel Rose reports. |
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Sam Shepard:
Stalking Himself 1997 - Biography
Type:
Documentary Rating: NR Running Time: 60 minutes Starring: Sam Shepard
Directed by: Oren Jacoby PLOT DESCRIPTION This hour-long documentary
presents the playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard giving viewers
a glimpse of his inner self through the prism of a group of his plays
presented off-Broadway in 1996 and 1997. Shepard, who won the 1979
Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child, is also the writer behind
Curse of the Starving Class, True West, and Fool for Love. Highlights
include scenes excerpted from play performances, Shepard in his first
television interview, and commentary by actors Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise,
John Malkovich, and Ed Harris. Directed by Oren Jacoby. ~ Steve
Blackburn, All Movie Guide |
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