Word: leonard
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...artworks, "where," ask these anxious theatergoers, "are the young Sondheims?" There won't be any. Not because high-brow musical theater is dead, but because the old Sondheim keeps on being new. Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, 79, continues to dominate the genre he has constantly reinvented, first with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins on West Side Story in 1957, Company (1970), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) and Sunday in the Park with George...
...latter capability is something the colon-cancer screen doesn't have - yet. But it's something that Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, believes is necessary to make the test truly useful for doctors and patients. "What this test clearly does is tell people that you have a greater likelihood of being in the group that is at high risk or low risk of having a recurrence, but it doesn't tell you that your risk will change if you get chemo...
Actually, the diminished returns for MI3 had less to do with the director's stewardship than with Tom Cruise's waning star power. On his Enterprise enterprise Abrams summoned Leonard Nimoy out of a black hole to play an elder Mr. Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard...
...With impeccable timing, Abrams welcomes the rest of the old crew of the Enterprise, young and fresh again, one by one to his dance floor. First up is Spock (Zachary Quinto, a slightly sexier version of Leonard Nimoy), who was bullied on Vulcan for having a human mother (Winona Ryder, seemingly still in character and costume from a Grey Gardens audition) and chose to take refuge in the Starfleet Academy. Then comes Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who rejects Kirk's leering come-on with just the crisp efficiency you'd expect...
...time Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban) introduces himself to Kirk on a transporter full of new recruits, my grin had settled in for good. In terms of casting, Ryder is Abrams' only blunder. John Choo (aka Harold of Harold and Kumar fame) as Hikaru Sulu? Perfection. Simon Pegg as Scotty? Genius. I didn't recognize Anton Yelchin, who makes a charming 17-year-old Chekov, from his role in Hearts of Atlantis but I was mentally clapping him on the back as well...