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...final dance routine—in which Haas and Barnard pair up for a classic vaudeville duet complete with bowler hats, garters, and coattails—is especially illustrative of this. During opening night, while Haas was already twirling, Barnard was a step behind, just finishing a kick...
...Barbara’s Song,” to Mrs. Peachum and her “Song of Sexual Dependency,” is a master of this music—which can be best described as “Cabaret” for more sophisticated listeners. The two classic songs from the opera, “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” and “Pirate Jenny,” are so well-performed and well-sung that I doubt I’ll ever be able to separate the memory of the former from...
...girl, we get a quirky aspiring Christian rocker. Instead of suburban Jersey, we get suburban Michigan. Instead of “Garden State” we get “Winter Passing,” a veiled yet less self-indulgent remake of Zach Braff’s campus classic...
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Oscar for the screenplay of “Good Will Hunting” is a classic Hollywood—and Harvard—success story. Damon, an unknown and a Harvard undergrad, writes an astounding script with his pal. A director likes it. They star in it themselves. Fast-forward to the ceremony for Best Original Screenplay.But what’s often overlooked is that the duo seem to have had only one good script in them, and it took them years to write it.Passion, adventure, and tragedy encapsulated in three acts...
...notice that, while talking about the medieval letters of Abelard and Heloise (a great literary reference), Carmela accidentally calls Heloise “Eloise”—a very subtle allusion to the fact that Carm and her daughter used to have a tradition of imitating the classic children’s book “Eloise...