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...With a talented ensemble, Gielgud resurrects a beautiful example of classical ballet in the 20th century. Giselle is vibrant, stunning, and entertaining—and “Giselle” is all the better...
...Chamberlin is one of the stars of Stairway to Paradise, and so is Berlin; he has six songs in this pastiche of revue numbers from the first years of the 20th century through New Faces of 1952. There are more than 30 tunes, some more familiar than others, and two comedy sketches - the first (the 1923 "The Yellow Peril") a one-gag item in which goldenrod flowers on the stage make all the actors sneezes they speak, the other (the 1949 "Gorilla Girl") about a jungle movie with very dumb starlet and a very smart gorilla. Both sketches...
...palazzo (better known as Palazzo Pauly, since it was the headquarters of the Pauly Glassworks for more than a century), it was a revelation. Morawetz acquired the property and, rather than selling the valuable artistic-glass collection that came with it, decided to give Venice a new Museum of 20th Century Glass as part of the project. Venice's mayor, philosopher Massimo Cacciari, well aware that the project was far beyond the city council's budget, facilitated bureaucratic permits...
...difference between the Murdochs and the Bancrofts. A bigger difference is that Murdoch has treated News Corp. not as a trust but as a vehicle to get richer and more powerful. From one newspaper in a provincial Australian city, he has built a global empire that now encompasses 20th Century Fox, MySpace and the Times of London. The man has shown a remarkable ability to sniff opportunity where others don't. But he is 76, he won't be around forever, and it's hard to say what News Corp. will be in the absence of his controversial genius. Quite...
...those reasons and for the endless ambiguities of his watercolors and canvases, he remains the 20th century Realist who still looks resolutely modern to us. And charming at the same time, though it's an irony that his paintings of old houses in Maine or on Cape Cod should strike us that way. When they first appeared, they were considered triumphs over the ugliness and banality of the houses themselves. Gilded Age piles with mansard roofs or carpentered scrollwork were deeply out of fashion in the 1920s, when Hopper started seeking them out. In the same way, when he painted...