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...been an assistant director and associate producer in the 1980s (see box). Their first effort: GoldenEye, a high-tech, high-speed 1995 hit that proved 007 could compete with the big-bang action pictures while keeping some of his cheeky, retro spirit. Since then, the competition has only got brasher and more explosive, with plenty of pretenders to the throne--most recently, Vin Diesel's XXX, a postmodern grunge Bond who traded in his tux for tattoos. Says XXX director Rob Cohen: Bond "never learns anything ... He doesn't do much of anything except be titanium and eternally stuck...
...With Chekhov, you always expect it to be kind of staunch, but it was very intelligent and funny,” said Amanda Brasher, a senior at the Boston Conservatory. “It was very accessible. That’s what will bring the public in to see these shows...
...Astaire?s achievement can be considered alone; he?s solus rex. But Kelly, more than any top Hollywood star I can think of, cannot be discussed without reference to another star; he must be appraised in relation, or opposition, to Astaire. Kelly was the younger brother, way brasher, more overtly ambitious, letting the steel and sweat show - Gene was No. 2, he had to try harder. Fred was No. 1 with a ballet. And in American movie dance, there was no third...
...crowd at the Warner party skewed a little older than the brasher EMI contingent, and seemed less dressed-down, which is nearly as good as being more dressed-up. In the music industry it is apparently a sign of caring too much if one is too well-dressed for an important occasion. Wandering around I bumped into Paul Simon, who was looking most casual both sartorially and in terms of his entourage, which was almost nonexistent...
Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...