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...offering, Time Stands Still, to take a typical example, won warm praise from most critics, but I found its alternately jokey and sanctimonious portrayal of a photojournalist and her war-correspondent boyfriend one giant media-friendly cliché. And I had to laugh at New York Times critic Ben Brantley's praise of Next Fall, Geoffrey Nauffts' new comedy-drama about a gay couple at odds over religion, as "that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy...
...banters fiercely with Connolly - and anyone the least bit familiar with the basic tropes of romantic comedy has to know where that is heading. The course of true love is always charted by the exchange of zingers, which in this case are pretty well written by Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly...
...parky enough.) Disney's latest offering - The Little Mermaid, based on Disney's 1989 animated hit, which opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last week - has received the usual fusillade. "Washed Up on Broadway," and "Run for the Lifeboats," ran the New York tabloid headlines. The Times' Ben Brantley, the Scar of the grump brigade, said he "loathed" the whole wretched thing, including even the one aspect of Disney shows that usually wins a grudging cheer, its scenic design. "The whole enterprise," the Times critic sniffed, "is soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very young child...
...Crumm and Laura Osnes - and their show are on Broadway, and the critics have dutifully taken up their assigned role, heaping scorn on this populist invasion of the Great White Way. The New York Post called the new Grease "sad"; the Daily News found it "lackluster." Sniffed Ben Brantley in the Times, the show "feels like a musical put on by a high school - and I don't mean a high school of performing arts." Ouch...
...greater increase than the salaries of their private school counterparts. This is a reversal of the trend shown in the 2005-2006 edition of the annual survey, when private institutions showed a greater salary increase for administrators than public schools. This reversal may reflect improving economic conditions, said Andy Brantley, chief executive officer of the association that conducted the survey. “The economies of most states did better this year than they have in the last several years,” he said. “As the economy improves, there is more flexibility for states to dedicate...