This Is How It Goes

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Neil LaBute doesn't think much of people -- and that's putting it mildly, which LaBute himself never does and is never likely to do. You wouldn't guess it from talking to him; he's affable as your favorite uncle. But to see how his plays and movies cumulatively give humankind a failing grade is to conclude that here's a man who wasn't schooled by Doctor Pangloss. LaBute, whose works are adding up to the theatrical equivalent of a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, is convinced that men and women are manipulative, intolerant, distrustful, and out to get each other with every fiber in their often buff bodies.

As of now, it seems that his men are trumping his women in nastiness, but there's[...]