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Food & Wine Calendar
miamiherald.com –
2009-05-28
Biltmore Unplugged: Live musical performances plus half off Don Julio tequila and Belvedere vodka cocktails; 6-10 p.m. through July 16; Cascade Poolside Bar at the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables; no cover. 305-445-1926 or biltmorehotel.com. ... Full Article
Berkeley Rep gives Dickens a dark Twist
mercurynews.com –
2007-05-17
Three stars Grim ???n??? grand We???re told early on in Charles Dickens??? Oliver Twist , a bracing stage adaptation of the classic novel, that what we???re about to see is complete fiction. ... Full Article
Oliver Twist
christianitytoday.com –
2005-09-30
It has been nearly a century since the first film based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist , and the Internet Movie Database indicates there have been over two dozen adaptations since then. ... Full Article
'Twist': Not-So-Artful Dodging
washingtonpost.com –
2004-07-30
An intriguing idea for about two seconds, this updating of the Charles Dickens story into a contemporary Toronto where the pickpockets of Dickens's London become smack-shooting gay hustlers is a bum trip. In writer-director Jacob Tierney's scheme, the Artful Dodger ... Full Article
After countless faithful translations to the big screen -- not to mention one timeless, Oscar-winning musical version -- Charles Dickens' tale of downtrodden London youth is given a gritty, contemporary spin in this independent Canadian production. ... Full Article
TWIST (2004)
movieweb.com –
2004-05-21
A calmly lucid re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist, updated to current times and moved out of the poor house and onto the streets of Toronto. ... Full Article
Story as reconfigured by librettist Gila Sand is reasonably faithful to the familiar narrative of the woebegone orphan (Brandon Ruckdashel), except he's become the explicit lust object of a Krafft-Ebing-approved cross-section of sideshow humanity. ... Full Article
Oliver in Toronto A Review by John Nesbit 06/16/2004 Considering the squalid setting of pickpockets and thieves that Charles Dickens developed for Oliver Twist , it's not that much a stretch to imagine a modern adaptation set in Toronto's subculture... ... Full Article
A film review by Don Willmott - Copyright © 2004 Filmcritic.com What would happen if you reimagined Dickens' Oliver Twist as a tale of modern-day teen hustlers cruising the nasty streets of Toronto? ... Full Article
CONTRA COSTA MUSICAL THEATRE'S "Oliver" starts impressively as more than a dozen orphans fill the stage with song. The excellent voices sing "Food, Glorious Food" with gusto to open the tale of young Oliver Twist, who had the audacity to... ... Full Article
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