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	December 2012

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COMMENTARY

Meeting John Doe
Michael Bettencourt
The seventy-year old story underneath Frank Capra's movie is as fresh as the election held last month. But there's never been a dramatic stage version created. Until now.

A Man For All Seasons But One
Arthur Meiselman
This is a story that was told to me by a college chum of mine who later became an intelligence
operative for the American government..

Failure
Nathan Thomas
I made a huge mistake. In the summer of 1984 I worked to build a summer theatre program in a small tourist town in the southwest.

Taylor Pie - The Music Never Dies
Les Marcott
Bette Midler wandered into Folk City and heard her play. Taylor offered to buy Midler a drink but Bette replied "I need to buy you a drink, this place is a dump".

Holding Six on the
pre-Apocalypse Jitterbug
Claudine Jones
I guess my question is, how can I try an electric griddle, find out that it doesn't work and then return it to Bippos 'unused in original packing'?

FILM (reviews)
Argo, The Sessions,
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Iran and the Middle East have been so explosively persistent in the news that it's hard to believe the Iran hostage crisis was 33 years ago. But even if it seemed distant, Ben Affleck's Argo brings it all back to terrifying life.
Miles David Moore

The Art of
David Wiley
When I read Wiley's poetry or see his paintings, I feel as if I might become synesthetic, too.
Lissa Tyler Renaud

OPERA
Jake Heggie's Moby Dick
At San Francisco Opera
Flying Nantucket-Man?
Renate Stendhal


		MASSAGE As a way of health 500 year-old ceramic miniatures display some of the first teachings of alternative medicine from Lanna Thai traditional massage Janine Yasovant คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

		PERFORMANCE Einstein on the Beach Then and Now A lot has been written about the many failed attempts of a revival and the remarkable resurrection of Einstein on the Beach with its present world tour. Renate Stendhal

	COMICS My Old Man! Hummer Ho! An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


	*Online and Thriving* Gertrude Stein, are you listening? Over 35,000 people worldwide are enrolled in a course on modern poetry that pivots on your work. Karren Alenier

	A Holidaze Survival Guide It's the season of colds, stampedes at the mall, Aunt Medusa's meltdown, hungover reindeer, missed planes and (how could we forget?)...the fiscal cliff. But be of good cheer! The spirit of Santa and art still exists. Heffalumps is here with a few essential holidaze survival tips.in real life. Kathi Wolfe

	EULOGY The Goddess In Exile When you, Elvira, died the earth died with you, your memory in the leaves of ancestral trees, your heart in the soil, your hands in the flowers you picked as a young girl scorched by the wild Andes sun. Griselda Steiner


	Postcards from Washington, DC The Photography of Jon Rendell





The Santa Claus Monlogues Les Marcott There's no red carpet treatment this year, Santa. No helicopter arrival. No band. No parade. No fanfare. No grand entrance. It's the year of lowered expectations. You'll simply arrive in a rusty Olds 98 pushed by volunteers.



Students of the impoverished Rembrandt painted guilders on the floor of his studio. When the master bent to pluck one up, the apprentices laughed, becoming masters themselves. Nowadays not only is a painted coin worth many more real coins, but the painted iteration can be lent to a museum for a limited time simply to increase its resale value. The museum is converted into its architectural double, the bank, as art and its market become incorporated—that, mon frère, is mixed-media performance. Joshua Cohen-Harpers Magazine



The Man With The Thing Arthur Meiselman In 1992, a young man came to the attention of authorities and other interested non-governmental parties. He was eyed because his old Hungarian uncle began to talk about him indiscriminately whenever the old man loosened his tongue and sense of discretion with too much to drink..



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?


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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

Phone Call An older gentleman at a street fair in Florida is reminded of a long lost love. He decides to call his former lover with his cell phone and we hear his side of the conversation consisting of his observations and reminiscences. It is a dramedy with bit of a twist at the end. A PLAY by Anthony R. Pezzula

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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


	Theatre What makes Stanislavsky different was not that he acted, but that he thought about what an actor actually does. Nathan Thomas March 2008

	Dance Tiny dancer at San Francisco Ballet Catherine Conway Honig April 2008


	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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