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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Pinter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Social Justice, Britain, Harold Pinter, Christmas Eve, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter Death, Plays, Death, Playwright, Entertainment News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Harold Pinter once said, "Being thrown out of the U.S. embassy in Ankara with Arthur Miller, a voluntary exile, was one of the proudest moments of my life."

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Harold Pinter Does Not Deserve the Post Mortem White-Washing He Is About to Receive

Johann Hari | Posted 01.25.2009 | World

Read More: Samuel Beckett, Pinter Nazis, Turkey, Nazis, Eugene Ionesco, Sandinistas, Pinter, Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter Death, Luis Bunel, Harold Pinter Obituary, Harold Pinter Stalin, Nobel Died, Johann Hari Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter Johan, World News
Johann Hari

Ever since Pinter was a teenager, he was relentlessly contrarian, kicking out violently against anything that might trigger his rage that day.

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Not Just a Passing Ghost

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare & Co, Stephen Joyce, Ulysses, Ulysses Censorship, Books, Ireland, James Joyce, Media News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

On the morning of September 18, 2008, Stephen James Joyce, grandson... of renowned Irish writer, James Joyce, called from France in response to a letter I sent to him some weeks before.

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Can We?

Wendy Block | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Sirota, The Uprising, Lobbyists, Grassroots, Fun, Bailout Deal, Illegal Activity, Progressives, Amy Goodman, Community Organizer, Federal Reserve, Corporate, Congress, New Activists, Shareholder Dividends, Government, Gordon Brown, u.s. Economy Problems, Shock Doctrine, Movement, Obama Change, Samuel Beckett, Banks, Moveon, Bonuses, Gay Marriage Ban, Saul Alinsky, Democracy Now, Naomi Klein, Barack Obama, Politics News
Wendy Block

I'm not ready to return to the same non-adrenaline-rush grassroots work that propelled Obama and the Dems to such a decisive victory.

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Can Poetry Really Be Translated?

John Lundberg | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Dante the Divine Comedy, Waiting for Godot, Poetry, The Inner Life, Mohamed Enani, Mohamed Enani Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Living News
John Lundberg

There's a great story of a Japanese production group that decided the conclusion of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot was a little too...inco...

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