Awakening
Aug 30 2008, Oscar

The world is an ugly, nasty place. I don’t think there is a single country that has been able to truley escape the wrath of the greed, violence, corruption, and chaos which we have created.

Of course in some countries, the tolls aren’t quite...

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In this image released by Fifteen Minutes PR, Hunter Parrish in a scene from “Spring Awakening,” currently playing at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York.