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making the ordinary exhilarating.(Life)

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From: Cape Times (South Africa)
Date: 20060921
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS. Directed by Paul Griffiths, with Heather Knight, Adam Du Plessis and Danie Fourie. At the Intimate Theatre, Orange Street, Gardens until September 30. PETER TROMP reviews.

American poet T S Elliott paid the mystery novel Armadale by 19th century author Wilkie Collins, the compliment of never being boring. In the movie CQ by Roman Coppola, son of The Godfather trilogy director Francis Ford Coppola, one of the characters chastises her earnest filmmaker boyfriend for potentially boring prospective audiences in his austere attempts to capture what is "real".

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