Monday, March 5, 2012

The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Elaine Guregian column: Death takes a bow.(Column)

Byline: Elaine Guregian

Sep. 20--When the movie Network came out in 1976, it pointed toward a scary world that in many ways has come to pass. Remember the story, about a dazzlingly ambitious young network executive (Faye Dunaway) who boosts ratings by exploiting the mental breakdown of a news anchor?

I wonder how Network would go over with a 20-year-old in a world where the boundaries of propriety (now there's a word from ancient history) and integrity are stretched to the breaking point, then stretched some more?

Into an era of un-shockability saunters Eric Coble's nasty little play The Dead Guy, which The Bang and the Clatter will give its Ohio premiere in a run starting tomorrow at Summit Artspace. …

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