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...love with itself, some-times it just has to sing. One of the most powerful self-addressed valentines was the musical Dreamgirls, which fictionalized the making and packaging of Diana Ross and the Supremes. The 1981 show, written by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger and directed by Michael Bennett, now gets its own makeover--into a just-this-side-of-fabulous movie...
Tony Tours, Again! A perfect sponsor for Bennett...
Retirement can really rock. Octogenarian Tony Bennett last week announced a 20-city U.S. tour titled The Best Is Yet to Come, starting early next year and sponsored exclusively by AARP...
...happen to think this is a useful point of view to take; although Bennett is very largely preaching to the converted. His play and this film will find its audience among middlebrows who have long since learned the lesson of sexual tolerance. Not many fundamentalists are going to see The History Boys. The problems with it seem to me to lie elsewhere. There is something self-consciously adorable in the writing and playing of Hector. He is Mr. Chips written a little too large and soft - literally so, since Griffiths is an obese man. He needs someone among the students...
...thought was "cinematic? (mostly because it contained some film pieces) is an improvement on the original. It has a flow and an intimacy that the often awkward theatrical version lacked. And it employs the same cast that played it in London and New York and the relatively minor changes Bennett has made in adapting it to the screen are negligible in their effect. The History Boys remains what it has always been - watchable, mildly witty, not particularly gripping...