Scene4 Magazine | This Issue: November 2012


	November 2012

COMMENTARY

Memento Mori
Michael Bettencourt

On Sunday, August 26, 2012, something happened. What if that day were to be my last? And I knew fully that this ending was coming.

Actor? Let's See Your License
Arthur Meiselman
For our own quality assurance, we try to license everything that is important to us, except giving birth to and raising children, of course.

Endings
Nathan Thomas
To be an American as I write feels like being at the end of a long marathon. At the end
one man left standing.

Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace
Les Marcott

Neil Young seems to be part of a trend when it comes to aging rock stars writing memoirs.

Colonel Crap
Claudine Jones
Auditions have come and I have tried to get interested; I know the director & the theater, but I'm past reading F early to mid 40's anyway.

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FILM (reviews)
The Master
Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson and Rian Johnson are two of the most fascinating film directors working today. Stylistically, they couldn't be more different.
Miles David Moore

PERFORMANCE
Einstein on the Beach
This seminal opera/music theater piece by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass is an intermissionless, four-and-one-half-hour meditation on the life and accomplishments of physicist Albert Einstein and is realizing its fourth production, third international tour.
Karren Alenier

DANCE
Manipulating the Masses
The audience in Paris responded to Maguy Marin's
Faces as if they were part of the choreography.
Catherine Conway Honig


		PAINTING Pornchai Chaima Fifth Step to Lanna Artist Way Janine Yasovant คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

'The Sessions': Poetry, Sex and the Silver Screen I've seen lots of movies about people who I "know" because they're famous, but I'd never seen a film about someone who I knew in real life. Kathi Wolfe

	COMICS My Old Man! Kish Meer In Tookis An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


	Brewsie and Willie The Film There are no commercial films based on any of Gertrude Stein's works, except, now, Rosalind Morris, has completed a film based on Stein's post World War II novella. Karren Alenier

	LYRIC Queen of the Night's Lament Lyric from the musical Hypatia - the original archetype of the ancient Mother Goddess denigrated by evil patriarchs. Griselda Steiner


	Postcards from Italy The Photography of Jon Rendell






Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.

The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor — the "genie of genes" — that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do to stop the expression of the gene. What are they going to do?



We Can't Publish This Story SS. Burrus Everyone knew that Buzzard had come down from the sky dome and had given the land, which was only mud... beautiful mountains. He had carved them out with his wings.

The Disintegrating Man Sanjeev Mohan There was something he wanted to forget. Something he really did not wish to remember. Something bad had happened, really bad.



Three Poems David Wiley Reading Gabriel Marcel On My Seventy-Fourth Birthday For a Few French Poets Rimbaud's House

Breugel Martin Burke Thirty wars have preceded this and thirty more will follow Thirty wars and thirty more where they gather to infer the splendor


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Letters to the Editor

Qreviews Q for "quick" - long and short reviews on theatre and film

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show




	In This Issue

Four Little Women At the time of mass madness, the time of outburst of Serbian together with all the other nationalism(s), the family Kasa containing this national mixture is gathered in the family house in Bezdan where it began its horrible and traumatic moments of living, surrounded by war, misery and fear. A PLAY by Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar

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What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	A Gift of Healing Marcel Petit's documentary "Hookers" Carole Quattro Levine July 2007

	In South Africa Interpreting the Past Romeo and Juliet versus. The Oresteia David Bannister June 2007


	The Steiny Road to Operadom A complete index of all of Karren Alenier's columns in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Comics A complete index of all of Elliot Feldman's comics in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Film Reviews A complete index of the film reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access


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