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GO! WEDNESDAY

Burn, baby, burn

By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff | November 24, 2004

Go! saw the fabulously Brando-esque Michael T. Weiss playing Pale (a.k.a Jimmy) in Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" at the Huntington Theatre last week and immediately thought: This is our new role model! Drunk, disheveled (yet stylish), overheated, packin' heat, violent, unwittingly funny, profane (in an Al Pacino in "Scarface" kind of way), cynically romantic, exploitative, arrogant, sardonic. Then Go!'s companion gently suggested that while she, too, loved the character and Weiss's portrayal, he was not a role model. Sometimes we get confused that way. It happened when we heard Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," too, way back when. But, lordy, this is a good 'un -- dark and volatile and funny as all get-out. It starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $14-$69. (It runs through Dec. 12, but there's no show tomorrow because you're eating turkey, watching football, and napping all day. It's the American way.)

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