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The Threepenny Opera Redux |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 822 Words, 4,812 Characters |
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You can see it from Sting's point of view. Here you are, one of the world's top rock musicians. You've gotten some pretty good notices as an actor in a number of serious films like David Hare's Plenty, playing opposite the reigning queen of serious actresses, Meryl Streep. You care about really serious causes like Amnesty International, the Brazilian rain forests, and the mistreatment of the native Indians there.
So when an eminently serious movie producer comes along wi...
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...llows he sings of the police (interestingly, Police was the name of his former rock group):
O, I could smash their ugly faces
And crush them with an iron maul!
--Eric Bentley's translation from the Grove Press edition of The Threepenny Opera. Here the singer seems at last to be able to let something of his political commitment overcome his general total lack of confidence.
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