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...guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD.) Later, catching up with his early work, I wondered if studio casting directors were as naive as I was - if they saw some steely sang-froid in his playing of these roles that persuaded them he was too chilly a presence for Hollywood stardom...
...sort of insult against the mother tongue.And of course, most of our own prejudices against shitty American pop songs are elitist and unfounded. The French understand hooks and love songs that only 12-year-old girls can admit to liking in America, which made Paris completely liberating. I sang “Gangsta’s Paradise” with no irony; I discussed the merits of “The Sweet Escape” in French; I kind of liked a Mika song for about two minutes.I was reunited with television for my last week in Paris...
Many of them gathered for a performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool guys in tight jeans who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Seattle in the 1990s. "I was locked in a cellar, and it became my shelter," sang front man Charbel Haber on See You in Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer...
...classic lyric roles in such works as La Boheme, La Traviata and Madame Butterfly, and in later decades, when his voice turned darker, added more forceful roles like those in Tosca and Un Ballo in Maschera; but he rarely ventured into ruggedly dramatic territory, and almost never sang in any language but Italian...
...performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool local guys in tight jeans and high-tops who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer...