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benson, I saw a review for this play and immediately thought of you. It looks good and has a stellar cast. Maybe we should have a group outing to see it:
A View From the Bridge, with Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber.
The Lake Worth Playhouse presents Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge. A View From The Bridge was originally produced as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955. It was based on a screenplay that Miller previously developed with Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, entitled The Hook, dealing with corruption on the Brooklyn docks. It was revised in 1956 to its current prose play in two acts, and was first performed at the Comedy Theatre, London on October 11, 1956 starring Anthony Quayle. In 1999, the play was adapted into an opera by William Bolcom, bringing the story back into verse form. In 2006, a film version release of A View From the Bridge was announced. It is to be directed by Barry Levinson and star Anthony LaPaglia, Scarlett Johansson, and Frances McDormand.
A View From The Bridge is set in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 Red Hook was a community of Italian and Sicilian immigrants. The people of Red Hook all appreciate the benefits of living in the U.S. but still strongly hold to Italian traditions and identify it as home. Their Italian/Sicilian heritage serves as a touchstone to unite the community with its own laws and customs, and the Sicilian code of honor is a motif running through the show. It is from their vantage point on the Bay seaward from the Brooklyn Bridge that Miller’s characters view their lives and the world around them.
And yet the “we” you mention opposes a spending freeze, financial reform, healthcare reform and just read today that Big banks threw 500K at the Massachusetts election in the final weeks to make sure Scott Brown won. You know…don’t want any of those pesky Dems getting their paws on financial regulation.
Yeah, “you’re” really up in arms about making sure the budget is in line with what it should be.
P.S. The Projected deficits have zero to do with Obama (his portion of the debt sits at 1 trillion) and has everything to do with the policies of the last 8 years combined with the fact that America is now going to need to become a lot “leaner” as we move forward.
I keep thinking Autour du Monde (on Fulton @ Clinton) might die. The owners are a couple from France as well. Its good but its always empty, can’t put my finger on why.
I read the Huffington article.
It doesn’t really tell me anything new.
We all undertand that the deficit for 2009 would be huge because of the 700billion TARP bill and the continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is safe to say that any time of war is run on a budget deficit (not a good thing, just a fact).
The 2010 budget deficit would have been huge as well if McCain had won, this is not news to me either since the President would still have to contend with a recession, two wars and unemployment, I have already stated that there is a role for the government in this.
The problem arises with the projected deficits that Benson posted at the beginning of this discussion, that is where the Republican strategy would have diverged sharply from the current Democratic plan which projects immense Debt/GDP ratios for the forseeable future.
benson, I saw a review for this play and immediately thought of you. It looks good and has a stellar cast. Maybe we should have a group outing to see it:
A View From the Bridge, with Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber.
http://www.aviewfromthebridgeonbroadway.com/
The Lake Worth Playhouse presents Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge. A View From The Bridge was originally produced as a one-act verse drama on Broadway in 1955. It was based on a screenplay that Miller previously developed with Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, entitled The Hook, dealing with corruption on the Brooklyn docks. It was revised in 1956 to its current prose play in two acts, and was first performed at the Comedy Theatre, London on October 11, 1956 starring Anthony Quayle. In 1999, the play was adapted into an opera by William Bolcom, bringing the story back into verse form. In 2006, a film version release of A View From the Bridge was announced. It is to be directed by Barry Levinson and star Anthony LaPaglia, Scarlett Johansson, and Frances McDormand.
A View From The Bridge is set in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 Red Hook was a community of Italian and Sicilian immigrants. The people of Red Hook all appreciate the benefits of living in the U.S. but still strongly hold to Italian traditions and identify it as home. Their Italian/Sicilian heritage serves as a touchstone to unite the community with its own laws and customs, and the Sicilian code of honor is a motif running through the show. It is from their vantage point on the Bay seaward from the Brooklyn Bridge that Miller’s characters view their lives and the world around them.
“That is THE problem we are up in arms about.”
And yet the “we” you mention opposes a spending freeze, financial reform, healthcare reform and just read today that Big banks threw 500K at the Massachusetts election in the final weeks to make sure Scott Brown won. You know…don’t want any of those pesky Dems getting their paws on financial regulation.
Yeah, “you’re” really up in arms about making sure the budget is in line with what it should be.
P.S. The Projected deficits have zero to do with Obama (his portion of the debt sits at 1 trillion) and has everything to do with the policies of the last 8 years combined with the fact that America is now going to need to become a lot “leaner” as we move forward.
Thanks MM!
ok,
I’ll stop posting about economics!
THL,
where is the Jersey Shore cast going this 2nd season?
and btw how are you holding up?is baby THL due soon? 🙂
thread killer?
La Table Exquise
370 Tompkins Avenue (at Putnam)
Brooklyn, NY 11216
(347) 663-6066
This is rf’s French bakery. Haven’t been there yet, but sounds yummy!
I keep thinking Autour du Monde (on Fulton @ Clinton) might die. The owners are a couple from France as well. Its good but its always empty, can’t put my finger on why.
ok, 11217 and bxgrl,
I read the Huffington article.
It doesn’t really tell me anything new.
We all undertand that the deficit for 2009 would be huge because of the 700billion TARP bill and the continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is safe to say that any time of war is run on a budget deficit (not a good thing, just a fact).
The 2010 budget deficit would have been huge as well if McCain had won, this is not news to me either since the President would still have to contend with a recession, two wars and unemployment, I have already stated that there is a role for the government in this.
The problem arises with the projected deficits that Benson posted at the beginning of this discussion, that is where the Republican strategy would have diverged sharply from the current Democratic plan which projects immense Debt/GDP ratios for the forseeable future.
That is THE problem we are up in arms about.
I hope that Edward’s wife takes him to the cleaners. It would be a fitting end for a trial lawyer douche bag.