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...didn't know if I had talents either." First came a string of small stage roles Neo says he can barely remember. Then television beckoned. Singapore had one black-and-white station in 1980, but soon he was co-hosting ubiquitous TV variety shows and honing his mid-to-lowbrow comedic style. He found his greatest success when he put on a dress, with wildly popular impersonations of a nagging housing block auntie and a libidinous grandmother. Then came films: he landed his first serious role in Khoo's landmark 1997 film 12 Storeys and made his directorial debut with...
...fans by appearing--with her trademark oversize glasses and a dog, Magic--in recent TV ads for Old Navy; of pulmonary illness; in New York City. An early advocate of Donna Karan and an editor for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times, Donovan appreciated highbrow and lowbrow fashion. Her mentor Diana Vreeland once told her, "My dear, you've got the common touch...
...only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin" as the material for her next musical, I was expecting another succes d'estime that puts me in a bad mood...
...only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin" as the material for her next musical, I was expecting another succes d'estime that puts me in a bad mood...
...reasonable equipoise, a relaxed uprightness of cultural carriage, is only with us some of the time. Jingoism still disfigures the lowbrow end of our journalism. "One of the ways in which we have matured is that we don't give a stuff about what other people think," blustered one such "cultural" columnist, Susan Mitchell, in the Australian, a national daily, last month. "We no longer feel we have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves...