Mark Taper Forum The auditorium was renamed the Amelia Taper Auditorium after a $2 million gift from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The Taper has presented innovative plays since its 1967-opening of "The Devils" from playwright John Whiting about the sexual fantasies of a 17th-century priest and a sexually repressed nun. The play received a great deal of protest from local religious leaders and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although the production continued. The production of such plays as "Murderous Angels", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain", "Children of a Lesser God", "Savages", "The Shadow Box", "The Kentucky Cycle" and "Angels in
Big Trouble (novel) Big Trouble (novel) Big Trouble is a novel written by Dave Barry. It was made into a film in 2001. However, the film was not released until 2002 because of the September 11 attacks. Barry, a longtime columnist for "The Miami Herald", set the novel's events in and around Miami, Florida. The book's plot-line is the plot-line of the film. The book is more detailed, and ironic. For example, how Eliot, at the end, gets a job being a copywriter for the Seminal Fluids (which he detests) because of the submission, by his client, of his client's artwork in his