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...portrayal underscores his yearning for Layla. Besides Sheridan’s sappy direction, several improbable details ruin the movie. Over the course of time, Louis becomes a suit-wearing exec and starts to date a girl. But then suddenly, without explanation, he moves back to New York, gets his band together, and sets out to find Layla. Unbelievably, Rush absorbs music by osmosis. There isn’t a scene where it takes practice and determination to learn composition, guitar, piano, or organ. When Rush’s fellow street musician yells “Run, August...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: August Rush | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...wonders if they aren’t a rotating radio dial filtered through a rock group. More importantly, Travis Morrison’s lyrics are smart but not wise. He describes social, romantic, and suburban anxiety with rare precision, but he never knows how to feel better. The band is perfect for kids who know their clothes don’t fit but don’t know where else to shop, kids who have an inkling that “Fight Club” stinks but don’t want to slog through “The Seventh...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOR THE RECORD: The Dismemberment Plan | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Tisch School of Arts Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, Iconis received a Ed Kleban Award in 2007 and a Jonathan Larson Award in 2006. He is currently working on several projects, including “The Black Suits,” a musical about a teenage garage band, and “The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks.” “I write about suburban situations, and very normal people and very normal situations. I like writing about people who don’t normally get songs written about them,” Iconis says...

Author: By Erinn V. Westbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How To Succeed in Musical Theater | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...ready are you,” no comma or anything.”Hopkins, meanwhile, was not afraid to wear the yellow disaster for the first full week of the year, on a bet from Breaux.Fashion sense will be more necessary when Hopkins finally leads his “band,” the “Washboard Whatups,” on its first tour. The band is the child of summer football workouts. A summer lifting group of Breaux, senior quarterback Liam O’Hagan, and Hopkins, started using the nickname in lifting competitions held to break...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leader of 'Washboard Whatups' Leads Ivies in Funny | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...It’s not a perfect scenario,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 told me. “Our guys will be down for the Harvard-Yale football game and I’m sure Cornell’s band and fans will be here in full effect...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENT: Tough Choice Mars Rivalry | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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