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See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=161231 AP REVIEW: Play Traces Real Plane Crashes Jun 14, 3:24 PM EST The actors appearing in "Charlie Victor Romeo," an interesting and unusual play on view at P.S. 122 in the East Village, do not have it easy. Each night they face death. Every night they crash. The show, which shares the acronym for "cockpit voice recorder," is a real-life, word-for-word account of the final minutes at the helm of six ill-fated airplane flights. The crashes occurred in the 1980s and 1990s and with varying rates of survival. Created by Irving Gregory (who also directs and performs in the play), Bob Berger and Patrick Daniels (he also performs), the vignettes made a big splash in 2000 at the International Fringe Festival and then toured before returning to New York. The printed program includes incident synopsis reports from the Web site of the National Transportation Safety Board as well as a glossary of eight aviation terms that come up during the show. Memorizing these definitions in the minutes before the curtain will provide the layman with only a fraction of the vocabulary needed to understand the litany of pilotspeak that follows. The jargon is enough to leave some theatergoers wishing they were back in economy class with their heads between their knees. But for the purposes of the play, it is not essential to know exactly what the aviators are always saying. In each of the scenes, the most important point is abundantly clear — the situation is not good. Besides the obscure language of the script, "CVR" suffers from certain other limitations of its experimental premise. With no character development on which to rely, the context — despite all its direness — has about as much personality as an in-flight meal has flavor. The absence of buildup also diminishes the jeopardy that exists throughout most of the play. Despite the theatrical restraints of performing a script taken verbatim from voice recordings, the production does possess qualities that make it refreshingly unique. The sound design of Jamie Mereness very effectively simulates air control instructions crackling over radio transmission, cockpit indicators, the hum of jet engines and, of course, sudden impact. (Audience members with sensitive hearing might want to be prepared to cover their ears to soften the blow.) The blend of these effects with the voices of the actors create a frantic, crowded rhythm — not quite musical but something distinct from conventional dialogue. In the end, "Charlie Victor Romeo" leaves its audience wondering whether the sum of these performed voice recordings amounts to something more than historical accounts. As documentary theater, the play reveals little about the psychology of its characters (who do their best to remain businesslike despite their duress) and leaves unanswered questions about the details surrounding the incidents. The play does faithfully present a reality that is both unfamiliar and unexpected. Sometimes, in the absence of meaning, that window into something unusual is enough to make theater provocative. See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=113579 AOL Losses Skyrocket; Turner to Step Down Jan 30, 7:24 AM EST Closing the books on a year that saw an astonishing $99 billion in losses, AOL Time Warner Inc. revealed that Ted Turner is stepping down as vice chairman, moving the media conglomerate even further from the roots of some of its disparate elements as it plots a turnaround. Turner, the maverick cable TV mogul who founded Turner Broadcasting and CNN before selling out to Time Warner in 1996, said Wednesday he will retain his post until May, but wants to focus more on his philanthropy after that. His exit coincides with the recently announced departure of chairman Steve Case, the America Online co-founder, and other recent moves that have replaced the key architects of the $106 billion merger with a team picked by new chief Richard Parsons. Whether Turner — who owns 3.4 percent of the company and is its largest individual shareholder — will remain on AOL's board will be determined in the next few weeks, spokeswoman Mia Carbonell said. Turner was not available for comment, she said. But in a statement Turner was optimistic "the company will be able to move forward and reach its true potential." AOL Time Warner executives were eager to look forward after announcing a staggering $45.5 billion charge in the fourth quarter to account for the media conglomerate's plunging value. That included a $10 billion charge to reflect the lower value of AOL's cable assets. Analysts had been expecting AOL take a goodwill writedown but were surprised by its enormity. It meant that in the three months ending Dec. 31, AOL lost $44.9 billion, or $10.04 per share, compared with a loss of $1.8 billion, or 41 cents per share, in the fourth quarter of 2001. However, revenue rose 8 percent to $11.4 billion, and AOL said that without the one-time accounting markdown it would have earned 28 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had been expecting earnings of 28 cents per share and $11.2 billion in revenue. The announcements were made after the markets closed Wednesday. AOL stock — which has fallen nearly 80 percent from its highest level after the merger was announced — dropped more than 9 percent in extended trading. Other than federal accounting investigations, the biggest question over AOL Time Warner remains the performance of the AOL online division. Time Warner's media properties — which include HBO, CNN, Warner Music, Time and People magazines and blockbuster film franchises like "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" — have been the bright spot. In fact, it took double-digit growth in AOL's cable, TV networks and movie divisions in the fourth quarter to make up for a 6 percent drop in revenue from the online division. Parsons said he was pleased with the company's overall fourth-quarter performance and pledged to "run each of our businesses as well or better than before, with a continued major focus on stabilizing and revitalizing America Online." Executives said they expect 2003 revenue to grow "in the mid-single-digits" and earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortization to be essentially flat. Analysts had been forecasting roughly 5 percent growth in revenue for 2003. AOL Time Warner this week sold its 8.4 percent stake in Hughes Electronics Corp., the parent company of the DirecTV satellite service, for $800 million as part of a plan to reduce debt to $20 billion by the end of this year. AOL also plans an initial public offering for its cable division, and analysts have speculated that AOL will sell its book-publishing division and the Atlanta Braves, the baseball team Turner brought to the media empire. Analyst Craig Nedbalski, managing director at Victory Capital Management, said AOL Time Warner's management team has more focus than in the past. He said the company has a credible plan for improving the performance of the online division. "I'm not as worried about AOL as the rest of the world," he said. The massive goodwill writedown disclosed Wednesday comes on top of a $54 billion charge AOL took in the first quarter to account for the company's stock decline. That move gave AOL the biggest quarterly loss in U.S. business history. So for all of 2002, AOL lost a record $98.7 billion, $22.15 per share, on revenue of $41.1 billion. In 2001, the company lost $4.9 billion, $1.11 per share, on revenue of $38.5 billion. Those figures clearly weighed on Turner. In an interview with Mike Wallace to be broadcast on CBS's "60 Minutes II" on Tuesday, Turner estimated that he lost between $7 billion and $8 billion from AOL Time Warner's sinking stock. He also said his vice chairman role was like having "one foot in the door and one on the sidewalk." He called it "a title without portfolio ... like the Emperor of Japan." ——— On the Net: http://www.aoltimewarner.com |
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