Word: mandolin
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...Slick” posturing (e.g., Pierce Brosnan, whose tie-adjusting characterizations all suffer from acute Bond Envy), and he can do sensitive, but without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks-wise, he’s solid and then some, his smooth face a juxtaposition of an aristocrat’s brow-line and a puppy’s jaw-line. With his droopy sleeves, his toussled hair, his little fits of bangs-blowing anxiety...
Harcourt and his co-conspirators (Taylor R.Terry ’03 on bass, John “Jack” C. Murphy ’04 on lead guitar, Lee S. Chung ’04 on electric violin and mandolin, John S. Young ’04 on cello and Ethan B. Abraham ’04 on drums) started off the show with the sweet sounds of their “acoustic-electric-symphonic-rock experience.” They found themselves entertaining residents of Eliot House through their windows in part because four of the sophomores live...
Should we worry about Nicolas Cage? Watching this gifted actor in the lush new war romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin, as he struts and frets so handsomely and woos starlet-of-the-moment Penelope Cruz--as he pays obeisance to all the courtly gestures of the traditional leading man--a viewer has to wonder if Cage is tethered forever to the peculiar job description of Movie Star...
...Butterfly. But this nontraditional trio is the biggest thing behind a budding bluegrass revival. Their sound? Something like Dueling Banjos as remixed by Fatboy Slim. This cultural collision of the sweetest kind is the handiwork of guitarist Sean Watkins, 24; his sister Sara, 19, a violinist; and mandolin player Chris Thile, 20. Their virtuoso flights of whimsy give the music's Celtic roots a postmodern jangle of complexity. Says Watkins: "We want to bring the acoustic message to youth right...
Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale star in this wartime romance about a young Greek girl (Cruz) who falls in love with an mandolin-playing Italian commander (Cage) while her fiancée is away...