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...well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally bites...
...would probably be impossible to write a musical about gang warfare, racism, police brutality, and attempted rape. Drive-by shootings aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity...
Elected were: John Clark, president; Lori Trevino, executive vice president; Bruce Andersen, vice president for internal affairs; Rober-to Ragone, vice president for academic affairs, Tim Bernstein, vice president for student services; Prathit Thaker, vice president for events and activities; Luis Salido, vice president for communications; and Judy Canales, treasurer...
...addition to participating in workshops on scenic art, stage lighting, theater improvisation and choral music, FAP participants heard speeches by Harvard arts luminaries such as Arthur L. Loeb, senior lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies; Jeffrey Bernstein '89, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club; and Marjorie Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums...
...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...