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...Producers. That staging of his 1968 movie was full-throttle farce with generically catchy songs, and it presaged the next generation of smart-silly musical comedies. Among its spawn were Hairspray and Spamalot, shows that put a post-modern twist on the antique shows of the '20s and '30s. Back then, plots were dental-floss clotheslines on which to hang a dozen chipper songs, and the audiences were meant to go out humming and smiling...
...Producers and its progeny, but not, it's fair to say, up there with the stuff churned out by George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and Cole Porter all by himself. Or with the fabulous songs written in the '30s and '40s by such Hollywood tunesmiths as Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer...
...copies. (Incidentally, Miyamoto points out that Animal Crossing wasn't originally designed for girls. "Many female schoolchildren are purchasing and enjoying it," he says, cracking himself up. "Also ladies in their 20s. But the fact of the matter is, this game was developed by middle-aged guys in their 30s and 40s. They just wanted to create something to play themselves...
...begins at its end: the protagonist's burial in a rundown Jewish cemetery in New Jersey near his parents. It then returns to the beginning, cataloging his brushes with mortality--a drowned sailor washes up near his boyhood home during WWII, a burst appendix nearly kills him in his 30s--then jumps to his old age, a parade of annual hospitalizations. In between, there's a life, including three failed marriages, several infidelities and artistic ambitions he set aside, but Roth draws them with uncharacteristic sketchiness. (A stretch of midlife health is described thus: "Twenty-two years passed," with little...
...unmatched excitement about contributing to Harvard’s artistic tradition.First to perform is Harvard’s oldest a capella group, the Harvard Krokodiloes. This all-male ensemble performs pieces—ranging from jazz standards to classic rock—from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. According to music director Thomas K. B. Wionzek ’08, the Kroks “offer a tight sound, classic repertoire, and interesting choreography.” Wionzek says that the group is excited to participate...