saturday, april 3, 2010
MOVIES
Deja vu with take two
“Why Did I Get Married Too?” is a repeat. C3
NAMES & FACES
Back to Hollywood for Kumar 1
Kal Penn: See ya later, White House life. C3
Style
ABCDE
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K S
BOOK WORLD
The lens
of conflict
“The Lotus Eaters,” by Tatjana Soli examines the adrenaline rush of war. C8
At the
starting gate
It’s our famous “breed the horses, name the foal” contest. C2
LaceDarius
Draymond
Raymar
Jabari
LafayettaApple
Flowmont
* Oh, and by the way
by Lonnae O’Neal Parker
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THEATER REVIEW
Tyne Daly, a diva in a ‘Master Class’ all by herself
by Peter Marks
The master class Tyne Daly conducts in her droll turn as Maria Callas has less to do with music than with the fine art of living portraiture. She’s every cat- ty, thin-skinned, self-pitying inch the diva — a word all too overapplied — in “Master Class,” Terrence McNally’s en- grossing study of the post-incandes- cent mind-set of the opera legend. The last time “Master Class” played
the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, it was during the play’s pre- Broadway tryout and the splendiferous Zoe Caldwell portrayed the prima don- na, a terrifying dispenser of perform- ance wisdom cloaked in Hermès and regret. This time, “Master Class” com- pletes the institution’s McNally trip- tych of plays with opera themes, which it calls “Terrence McNally’s Nights at the Opera.” And the evening’s headlin- er for the occasion proves to be a re- markably fitting inheritor of the role.
theater review continued on C2
IN POOR TASTE?Burger King’s ad upset mental health groups.
The maddening madness of Burger King’s mascot
by Monica Hesse
Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that Retire- Ronald.com launched to blast McDon- ald’s clown for luring kids into un- healthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King ad- vertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. The ad in question features the mas- cot King running maniac . . . er, psy- chot . . . er, quickly through an office building. He breaks a window pane,
gives a befuddled-looking woman a Whopper, then is tackled by two white- uniformed medical types. The King is “crazy” and “insane,” the medical types explain, because he wants to give away his meat for the low, low price of $3.99!
“I was stunned. Absolutely stunned and appalled,” says Michael Fitzpat- rick, executive director for the Arling- ton-based National Alliance on Mental Illness, one of the nation’s largest men- tal health advocacy organizations. He called the ad “blatantly offensive” and hopelessly retro in its depiction of
crazy continued on C5
YOUTUBE
t first it was difficult to under- stand just what the announc- ers were saying. That soft C in the middle of the kid’s name made them
pause, and made it sound like they were mumbling the rest. I was surfing the Web as my husband
watched the Duke-Baylor NCAA semifi- nal Sunday, but I looked up each time they said it. After about four times, I got it. But I couldn’t believe it. LaceDarius. LaceDarius. Pronounced lace-darius. “LaceDarius Dunn comes up with the ball,” said the commentator.
ESSAY
let’s discuss the name of the game
“Wow,” I said to my husband, Ralph.
“Which team does he play for — Baylor or Duke?” My husband, who played football for the Blue Devils, just looked at me coolly. “It’s gotta be Baylor,” he said. “Duke does not recruit players named LaceDarius.” Turns out he was onto something (for- mer Duke basketball standout Trajan
Win or lose,
Alixander Gyasi Lonnae
COURTING ATTENTION:College basketball player LaceDarius Dunn. PAUL ZOELLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
KalinDelvon
La’Quisha
Lieutenant
Shaka Langdon notwithstanding).
For the rest of the afternoon, I couldn’t
let it go. Of all the urgent questions com- ing out of the tournament, mine felt the most pressing. One: LaceDarius? Biblical, maybe? Two: Um, WHAT in the world??? This is not to say a word against the
gifted young man whose athletic prow- ess lifted his team to a school-record 28 victories this season and whose mama gushes when she talks about him. But the name, emblematic of many, does of- fer a point of contemplation. Cries out for a meditation on whether, as a culture, we’ve reached a bridge too far.
Makes me wanna holler, and throw up
name continued on C4
Why advertise? News mags have iPad covered.
by Howard Kurtz
When was the last time that Time
and Newsweek went with the same cover subject whose name wasn’t Oba- ma? Clearly, such treatment would be re-
served for a development so indisput- ably vital that it would change civilization as we know it. That event has arrived, in the form of a $500-to-$800 prod- uct that you should feel guilty for not having, even though it doesn’t hit the stores until Sat- urday. The iPad might turn out to be so revolution- ary that we’ll look back on its unveiling like Alexander Gra- ham Bell speaking to Mr. Watson. Or not. But Apple and its media maestro, Steve Jobs, are once again reaping what amounts to tens of millions of dollars in free publicity. Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel
says he remained skeptical as “a lot of people in our business have looked at the iPad as the Jesus tablet, the savior.” But “when Steve came here for break- fast” to demonstrate the device earlier this year, “I thought it’s a fantastic thing for almost every kind of content, including surfing the Web. “We’ve had a long relationship with Steve. Steve looks at Time as an iconic Amer- ican brand. We’ve got exclusive access at a time when he’s giving nobody else access.” Newsweek Editor Jon
Introduced in January, Apple’s iPad arrives in stores Saturday.
Meacham says his tech- nology team convinced him “that the iPad could finally be the device that does for visual content what the iPod did for
music. To my mind, there’s no bigger story about media or culture — and media and culture affect everything else — than the future of the delivery of news, and that made an iPad cover a
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