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...Monster, she's worked hard to shrug off the ethereal girlishness of her Mermaids and Addams Family days. As for Johansson, the suspicion lingers that there was always a voluptuous woman waiting to burst out of her pre-teen roles. The few extra pounds she carries, in an era when curves are denounced as baby fat, give her the anachronistic, grown-up glamour of a Rita Hayworth. She photographs as mature beyond her years, which makes her a favorite of directors like Woody Allen and critics like me. But beneath my old-fashioned fan worship lies the suspicion that Johansson...
Juilliard Graduate, Sax player, two-time Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and composer--Teo Macero was all of the above and famous for none of it. But in the early 1960s, after taking a job at Columbia Records, he became one of the era's most celebrated producers. Best known for his long, occasionally combative collaboration with Miles Davis--whom Macero likened to a spouse--Macero had unusual latitude to cut and shape Davis' improvisations, often co-creating pieces. Among the albums he oversaw: Davis' Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way and the monumentally influential Kind of Blue, as well as such...
Indeed, In the Heights might even be regarded as the first musical of the Barack Obama era. It represents change on Broadway. It's a show full of hope. And it has its producers--and a lot of other people who want Broadway to reach out to new audiences with contemporary, heartfelt shows like these--crying...
...ensure success.” Look up the Holocaust: “the term used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II.”So it is that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history’s greatest villains is reduced to a spectral figure of fear while one of its greatest tragedies becomes a dispassionate statement of fact. The encyclopedia drains the entries of their terror and, indeed, of their very life, reducing them to little more than a hazy nightmare...
...last truly charismatic public intellectuals—and in this sense his passing should be lamented by anyone nostalgic for those days when ideas and the “life-of-the-mind” still mattered. Buckley was certainly an artifact of this dwindling era: He famously lost his temper on national television and blustered, in his droll blue-blood Connecticut brogue, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered...