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Elmer Dresslar Jr., who extolled vegetables to generations of television watchers as the booming voice of the Jolly Green Giant, died on Oct 16. He was 80.

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He periodically re-recorded the "Ho, ho, ho" for Green Giant commercials, most recently about 10 years ago.

Anne Bancroft, the stage and film star whose signature triumphs in a 50-year career ranged from the courageous Annie Sullivan in "The Miracle Worker" to the hungrily seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," died on Monday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 73 and had homes in Manhattan and Los Angeles. The cause was uterine cancer, said John Barlow, a spokesman for Ms. Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks.

詳見紐時：「Anne Bancroft, Stage and Film Star in Voracious and Vulnerable Roles, Dies at 73」 (2005.6.7)

MACBETH does a back flip from a 10-foot-high city wall; his queen sings a lament as she wipes imaginary blood from her hands; and the courtiers enact their coup in Han dynasty dress. It is no typical production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" that Spoleto Festival U.S.A. is presenting on Thursday and Friday in Charleston, S.C.  

Renamed "The Kingdom of Desire," it is a creation of the Contemporary Legend Theater of Taiwan, which has fused Shakespeare's plot with the mise-en-scène of Beijing opera. The verses are in Mandarin (with English titles), and the words are accentuated by the actors' flowing patterns of movement.

Aesthetic qualities of a rarefied sort are paramount in Beijing opera. Actors train intensively from childhood to achieve a perfect fluidity of movement. Stage scenes are organized to produce the most exquisite impression. Sometimes, during a martial sequence, a gong will suddenly sound, and the performers freeze their bodies into a beautiful sculpture adorned in silk.

These differences in representation reflect the differences in subject matter. "Beijing opera only portrays virtue, illustrates high ideals," Mr. Wu said. "Shakespeare's plays and the Greek tragedies talk about human weakness caused by love and hatred." Indeed, Chinese opera heroes and heroines, like the charitable Bai Su Zhen in "Madam White Snake" or the naïve Du Liniang in "The Peony Pavilion," are paradigms of innocence. The leads in "Macbeth" are murderers tortured by ambition and then by guilt.

短評：Bai Su Zhen、Du Liniang者，白素貞、杜麗娘也 

詳見「紐約時報」： “Shakespeare Brushes Up on His Chinese ”

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這麼說吧，你知道台灣有個大米倉，就在台南的後壁村嗎？在那兒，有三個農夫，每天五點起床，種田，偶而兼點打棉被、賣花生的副業。經年累月，他們的收入微薄，政府也鼓勵他們休耕，偶而，颱風會將他們一年的辛勞全化為泡沬。但，近七、八十歲的他們說，種田這事，他們要做到眼睛閉上為止。 

我們也一直很習慣地認為，有智彗的話語是從學者專家口中吐出的，但，只要你再貼近一點，你會發現，那原本被我們認為是停滯的、枯燥的農民生活，裝載了多少與我們共通的生命經驗，而他們用極為簡樸卻有力量的思考，超越了我們可能都無法超越的困難與對生命的迷思。誰說他們是粗鄙的、落後的？他們只是缺少了該被賦予的尊嚴，和更好的政策，去對待、去保存。不只保存台灣的農業，也保存這樣綿長深刻的文化。 

片名：阿拉伯的勞倫斯

導演：Davie Lean

演員：Peter O'Toole、Alec Guinness、Omar Sharif、Claude Rains

附註：男主角Peter O'Toole後來在末代皇帝一片裡飾演溥儀的英國老師。Alec Guinness在星際大戰裡飾演年老的歐比旺(依恩‧麥奎格在前傳三部曲裡飾演年輕的歐比旺。)Omar Sharif在齊瓦哥醫生裡擔當男主角。Claude Rains請參照之前的介紹

By A. O. SCOTT

At one point, Darth Vader, already deep in the thrall of the dark side and echoing the words of George W. Bush, hisses at Obi-Wan, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy." Obi-Wan's response is likely to surface as a bumper sticker during the next election campaign: "Only a Sith thinks in absolutes." You may applaud this editorializing, or you may find it overwrought, but give Mr. Lucas his due. For decades he has been blamed (unjustly) for helping to lead American movies away from their early-70's engagement with political matters, and he deserves credit for trying to bring them back. 

詳見紐約時報：「Some Surprises in That Galaxy Far, Far Away」

席勒（Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805）

第一部劇作《強盜》（1781）受到極大歡迎，與歌德的《少年維特的煩惱》並列為狂飆運動的經典。
作者：耿一偉
詳見自由時報：自由的滋味，德國劇作家席勒側寫（上）、（下）（2005 5/9、5/10 ）

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