Fine dining has a principle that can be paraphrased like this: “If your restaurant serves a simple, homestyle meal with only a few elements on the plate, each of those elements has to be perfect to create an elevated experience.” When those simple elements aren’t perfect, they often create a serviceable meal, but not one […]
Archives for October 14, 2014
Up close with Fetch Clay, Make Man stars Roscoe Orman and Eddie Ray Jackson
During the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Era, two men forged an unlikely friendship. Former movie star Lincoln Perry was better known in his heyday as the comical, stereotypical caricature of a black man, Stepin Fetchit. By the mid-1960s, Perry was hardly remembered and if he was, it was with derision or as the […]
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption
A new feature documentary called Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption follows a troupe of actors on a five-year journey performing Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi—which notoriously combusted in controversy when it opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1998. As inflammatory as the play was, the documentary is surprisingly touching. It’s a film that Corpus […]