Word: artists
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...more romantic. In her version of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca is an artist with a strong mind and a point of view," says Paul Kellogg, the City opera's general and artistic manager. "And whether one agrees with her approach or not, I can tell you that it makes for exciting opera...
That proves only that Kieslowski was also an entertainer. The ambiguity and poignancy of each sketch show that he was always an artist. In Decalogue, One (Thou Shalt Have No Other God but Me), a math professor lives with his bright, loving 11-year-old son--a small boy who asks big questions about God and death. The father believes that everything can be measured, even the density of ice on the local pond. It will take a catastrophe to teach him that his logic has holes. But the episode's true poetry is in scenes...
...Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce...
...transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television. So what? say kids'-TV veteran Wood, 60, and co-creator Andrew Davenport, 33, a trained speech therapist and former performance artist; they insist that Teletubbies helps children acquire language skills. "Children are able to make their own meaning from it," says Wood. "We don't have an adult on there telling them what to think...
...says he had to make it. "It's like Michael Jordan when he went off to play baseball," he says. "People didn't understand why. But there was a baseball player in him--maybe not a good one--but there was one. Same with me. There's an artist in me--it may not be a good one, I don't know. But I think the art is good...