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...cyclist in American Flyers, the baseball veterans in Bull Durham (recently chosen by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as the best-ever baseball movie) and For Love of the Game. His talk has a coiled energy as well. Sentences, packed with imagery and analogies, accrue momentum until he's created an aria, an oration on the fly. He has the assurance of someone who is used to being listened to, who's had more than a cup of coffee in the big leagues. For maybe a decade, Costner was the Greg Maddux of Hollywood stars, quietly outpitching the competition...
...much as the nuances of Nabokov. Dave De Remer’s mathematical-like precision and dedication to perfection in writing is reminiscent of the intricately insane, yet precise rhythms of Stravinsky. A Rahul Rohatgi column exudes the playful and entertaining bravado of Figaro’s boastful aria in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville...
...Thomas, 38. "You have lots of people screaming at each other and you can't understand what they're saying. You have an audience who react like a chorus." Lyricist and director Stuart Lee agrees: "Opera also gets accused of phoniness because characters just step forward and sing their aria. But in Springer the host asks the guests to state their problem, which immediately sets up the song." The earnest pair are deeply convinced that the idea - their first major piece - works. "Everything that's a perceived weakness of opera is a strength of the TV show," adds Thomas. "People...
ELEMENTS. Dance to raucous drum & bass in close quarters, courtesy of guest DJs sCi and Aria. Optionally, mingle with the confused restaurant patrons as a bonus. Thursday, Feb. 13 at 10 p.m. Tickets $3-$5; free before 10 p.m. The Phoenix Landing, 512 Massachusetts...
...owns the shop with his wife, Tammy, is hardly your average diner drone. Instead, he's a five-star chef who counts Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Louis Palladin among his mentors and boasts a résumé that includes stints at Spago in Las Vegas and Aria in Beijing. After arriving in Hong Kong in 2001 to head the Great Eagle Hotel's Bostonian, he began having entrepreneurial aspirations when Tammy developed a craving for tacos-hardly an easy find in his new city. The Californian couple started asking around to see if others were feeling the same home...