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...most controversial decisions Taniguchi made was to retain the famous amalgam of fa?ades along the museum's West 53rd Street side. The product of five separate building campaigns, the streetscape features successive fa?ades by Edward Durrell Stone and Philip Goodwin, Philip Johnson, and Cesar Pelli. Taniguchi argued to keep them intact?as a kind of history of modern architecture. This fueled early mumblings that the renovation was an opportunity lost, a glorified embalming rather than a genuine rebuilding. Dismissing such complaints, Taniguchi says: "Unlike many museums, MOMA faces a street, not an avenue, so even if I did something interesting...
...jealous opera diva Carlotta. Although Phantom has kept salaries low by casting virtual unknowns, its $80 million budget puts it between Alien vs. Predator and The Incredibles. An ensemble of 100-plus sings and dances through Schumacher's enormous, immaculately designed soundstages. In addition to the roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there's the Phantom's Lair - a dark catacomb where the deformed genius composes on his grand piano to the steady accompaniment of water dripping into a stagnant, green pond. The space, illuminated by hundreds of candles, was so humid that Butler compares...
...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes...
...Fifth Circuit [Court of Appeals] has just said that a big stone monument of the Ten Commandments, is in fact, secular,” Laycock said. “It has, in big words at the top, ‘Thou shalt have no other Gods over...
...hung them up on the wall, and put a poster of Dylan with a harmonica right above my bed. I saw him in concert with Paul Simon and was the only one of my friends who could identify most of his songs. Play “Like a Rolling Stone!” one friend kept yelling in exasperation, and then “Bring out Paul Simon!” But I was far more excited about a radically reworked version of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (Dylan is known...