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...just ethnic stuff. I got comedies, dramas, melodramas, tragedies." But Tucci, finally sprung from the saturnine-villain roles (Billy Bathgate, Murder One) that both fed and trapped him, had his eye on a story he had been mulling for years. The idea became The Impostors, an $8.3 million opus (Big Night cost $4 million) that Tucci describes as "a little Heidegger, a little Buster Keaton...
...pupil, Simon composes a long poem that some people hate ("Drop dead," reads a publisher's rejection note; "keep your day job") but others champion. Simon becomes a literary celebrity, and in gratitude to his mentor says he will insist that his publisher also issue Henry's opus. Then, alas, he reads...
...importance in rock history as Seven Mary Three and Candlebox. Instead, Weiland has decided to plunder the grave of the Beatles, fashioning an album styled to their late-1960s hijinks allied with the glam of 1970s David Bowie. Witness "Barbarella," the album's first single, and a seven-minute opus where Weiland throws in every studio trick the Beatles ever used, and then some. Unfortunately, Weiland has forgotten the difference between noise and tune--sift through guitars more processed than New York City hot dogs in "Desperation #5" and "Cool Kiss," and you'll be hard pressed to find...
Pamela Thomas-Graham '85 is a woman who does it all. Five months pregnant, the McKinsey & Company partner with a joint J.D.-M.B.A. degree from Harvard's Law and Business Schools spoke last evening about her latest opus, a mystery novel set at Harvard...
Although their third and final piece, Debussy's Quartet in G minor, Opus 10, lacked focus and feeling in the first movement, the quartet quickly recovered--and by the second movement, Assez vif et bien rythme, played a sound that (like its French direction would suggest) was lively, rhythmic and lyrical. But perhaps more importantly, it was fresh. Despite the practice that first violinist Arnold Steinhardt characterizes as "hours and hours of brute labor," the quartet did on Friday what makes them renowned: they conveyed spontaneity. The result was a sound that through rehearsal did not become tenderized and beaten...