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...while the sequencing shows restraint, the song’s bombastic multi-tracked vocal harmonies suggest that Murphy may even be taking on Freddie Mercury. “North American Scum” is this outing’s silly bootyshaker, the equivalent of yesteryear??s “Daft Punk Is Playing at my House”—but that song’s teenagers have matured into musicians on an uncool continent, jabbing back at the accented discotheque acolytes across the Atlantic. Which is funny, since Murphy owes a lot to European influences. They...
...Maude and Harold” was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never overwhelmed the actors’ riotous vocal performances. Mitnick’s score alluded extensively to the wholesome showtunes of yesteryear??s Rogers and Hammerstein productions—which was all the more ironic considering the songs’ risqué content. Pope had her hands full orchestrating frequent set changes. The stage underwent several transformations during the course of the musical: it was made to stand...
...it’s not new, and it’s not everything. But Wolfe seems to think it is new, or at least, that the language has changed so dramatically as to signal a serious downward departure from the “decent” sexual undercurrents of yesteryear??s undergraduates. Yet even if it had, the pervasiveness of sex in Charlotte Simmons eclipses nearly all else—academic pursuits in a supposed elite institution, genuine friendships, even romantic relationships...
...most popular actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood: the luminous Audrey Hepburn and the debonair, adorably-cleft chinned Cary Grant. And as Sydney Pollock learned from his remake of Sabrina in 1997, even today’s stars tend to pale against the luster of yesteryear??s celebrities...
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