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...Bela Fleck...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Fleck Tells Extraordinary Banjo `Tales' | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

Emerging from two very separate traditions, Cecil Taylor's music is difficult to classify, beyond calling it sui generis. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Taylor draws deeply upon the twentieth-century European art music school of composers such as Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky. However, his professional experience from an early age came in the jazz world, the network of bars and nightclubs where the African-American musical idiom was being developed...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Passionate Taylor Grooves | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

...form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine. Leading the attack is Rocky Mountain Skeptics, a group of scientists and other professionals based in Boulder, Colorado, who investigate what they call "pseudo science." Its president, computer specialist Bela Scheiber, charges that TT is "paranormal and religious activity masquerading as science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A No-Touch Therapy | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Primary among these was the aging, decrepit but still majestic Bela Lugosi. Martin Landau does a handsome turn as Lugosi -- so strong that when he disappears, Ed Wood loses its momentum and continues its death march on the shoulders of Johnny Depp, in the title role, an exemplary actor who can't do much more than smile heroically in the face of every humiliation. Sometimes this is funny. "Really?" Depp says, sounding like Jon Lovitz's Master Thespian on Saturday Night Live. "Worst film you ever saw? Well, my next one'll be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Monster to Be Despised! | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Dear Phillipe and Bela...

Author: By Hal Eskesen, | Title: A Letter of Advice to New Graduates | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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