Entertainment: Tofu Prayer

Tofu Prayer

Written by Joshua Tyler

I decided something last year, and seeing In Good Company this past week only solidified it. I like Topher Grace. A lot. He’s like a young Tom Hanks, only with a softer, gooier center. To see it, you’ve got to get past repparttar

sarcastic weaponry he waves in front of him for protection; an armor of irony and affectation to wrap around a humble, everyman center.

Recent rumor has him fully abandoning “That 70’s Show” in favor of trying a full on movie career. I’m all for it. Ashton Kutcher, who decided to stay with repparttar 109737 show despite growing film success, is naturally pissed. But then Ashton never had any actual talent to begin with. With Topher, we’ve only scratched repparttar 109738 surface.

In Good Company is a huge step in repparttar 109739 right direction for him, as a corporate asshole who’s not really much of an asshole. He’s thrown into a position of wealth and authority far too young, and can’t think of anything more creative to do with his newfound success than buy a Porsche. He buries his emotional damage beneath a forced, congenial exterior as he’s barraged with personal and professional failures. It’s impossible not to like and sympathize with Topher, even when he’s playing repparttar 109740 right arm of a faceless, life destroying, corporate monster.

Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre Celebrates 100

Written by Kriss Hammond

Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre Celebrates 100 Read Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com Read this entire feature FREE with photos at: http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/shows/theater/abbey/abbeytheatre.html

Everyone in Israel is an archaeologist, while everyone in Ireland is a poet (or writer, playwright, or singer, or at repparttar very least, a critic).

Mirth and merriment is woven deeply into repparttar 109736 fabric of repparttar 109737 Irish consciousness. You can sit in a pub and in repparttar 109738 middle of a conversation they will break out in passionate song or quote prose and poetry from William Butler Yeats or other national literature heroes. After all, this is repparttar 109739 Isle that invented repparttar 109740 limerick.

The National Theatre of Ireland is celebrating its centennial in 2004 with nationwide events called Abbeyonehundred that not only sees wonderful staged plays at repparttar 109741 theatre that W.B. Yeats built, but major museum shows about drama, acting, and even stage sets.

For ten decades repparttar 109742 Abbey Theatre in Dublin, has staged provocative dramas and comedies and musicals by playwrights who have observed and absorbed repparttar 109743 tumultuous changes that have taken place in Irish society. Since 1904 these distilled and poignant revelations have been revealed on repparttar 109744 two national stages, repparttar 109745 Abbey and repparttar 109746 more recent Peacock.

The new Abbey Theatre in Dublin rests on repparttar 109747 namesake of WB Yates' original theatre.

26 Lower Abbey Street 00 353 1 887 2200 www.abbeytheatre.ei

The Abbey was founded at a time of social, political and intellectual ferment in Ireland and its story is well woven into repparttar 109748 fabric of repparttar 109749 nation. It has served with distinction in asserting repparttar 109750 Irish identify under repparttar 109751 yoke of English rule. The names of its champions are legendary and it is fascinating to see among them repparttar 109752 names of so many women, among them Maud Gonne, Augusta Gregory, and repparttar 109753 English philanthropist Annie Horniman, who bankroled Yeats' thespian endeavor. William Butler Yeats' own vision of repparttar 109754 Abbey at its inception was a vision not only of repparttar 109755 future for drama but repparttar 109756 future of Ireland. The decades have seen considerable applause and a predictable quota of criticism and controversy prevaricated by repparttar 109757 Abbey.

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