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...noblewoman who has lost her lands and family because they fell out of favor with the crown. It also places her in some amusingly bad company--a sexually voracious Cardinal (Jonathan Pryce), a courtier who is too clever by half (Simon Baker), a fake noble husband (Adrien Brody) and the mystic mountebank Cagliostro (Christopher Walken, who is, as always, deliciously weird). You may not be able to follow the overall arc of their scheming, but scene by scene they are a delightful crew, hissing away behind their cloaks and fans...
...Stradivari, one of the greatest craftsmen the world has known, would shudder if he were to read what follows. It concerns a cello he made three centuries ago, in 1701, that today some musicians consider the best in the world. It is named after one of its various owners, Adrien-François Servais, and for the past 20 years has been kept in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach's six solo...
...venue, Into the Woods must attempt to fill it with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure that has not been adjusted since the 1980s. It’s a tall order, but one which has been tackled enthusiastically by Jenny I. Marsh ’03, Adrien C. Finlay ’03 and K. Babi Das ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, three first-time producers and their staff...
...Adrien Brody...
...story of Liberty Heights is, very simply, the account of a summer in the '60's, where two boys, Van (Adrien Brody) and Ben (Ben Foster) are growing up in a very traditional Jewish family. Their grandmother believes that the most salient point in the story of Samson and Delilah is that Samson killed all the goyim. Their father, Nate, runs a gambling racket disguised as a strip-joint. At the same time, the two boys are being exposed to a world beyond that of the traditional Jewish one--older son Van is seduced by the WASPish world of white...