It makes me wonder why movies did away with intermissions. When you take a break from reading, you have the opportunity to think about about and digest it. Intermissions served much the same purpose, with the added bonus that you could talk about the first half with the person you went with.

Forrest Gump is one of the best examples of the movie being better that the book. IIRC there's a chapter where Gump becomes an astronaut, the return capsule gets lost in Africa on reentry, and he spends the next several months the captive of a cannibal tribe.

You could always try this:

@    Janet

Not the best way to enjoy it, but the best way I found to grasp it was to rent a film adaptation and to get a copy of the script. Read along with the movie, and when you get lost, stop and rewind. It also gives you insights into what was changed and for what reasons. That's how I studied the plays in college.

Oh yeah, I saw that, "The Motherfucker with the Hat". It was entertaining, but not worth the price of Broadway tickets. It was pretty light, and Rock was one of the weaker actors.

I got really confused for like three seconds because i thought everyone was talking about the Cohen "Closing Time". 

Checked out that IMDb page. I think some of her puppets and masks are pretty cool.  

Apparently, it was my favorite show as a toddler. I'd smack the ground in front of me, yelling "Big Money!" over and over again. I think I liked the flashing lights, the whammy cartoons, and how excited the people on the TV got.

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm about to kill the junky
with the plastic eyeballs, spraypaint the vegetables
Dogfood stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stockcar's flaming with the loser on the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
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I think Milton, Flannery O'Connor, and "The Last Temptation of Christ" got it right. You make Jesus interesting by making him fucking terrifying.

Are you talking about a version of the book that has the missing chapter with the missionaries bringing Christianity to the Martians? I've noticed several chapters in my copy, which is a fairly old hand-me-down from an uncle, that do not appear in more modern versions. 

As an unapologetic lover of John Milton and the Romantics; I'm going to have to go with the lost two plays of Aeschylus's "Prometheia" trilogy: "Prometheus Unbound" and "Prometheus the Fire-Bringer". 

I was wondering how this compares to "Shakespeare Behind Bars" which a 2004 doc with pretty much the exact same premise. I strikes me as the "more naturalistic Ceasar Must Die" that the review mentions. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.

NASA Production of T.S. Elliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" 
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