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...worked hard to master an intricate, precise technique (his later experiments with 12-string guitars, not to mention his sitar playing, would be vastly influential in rock music). Now concertgoers couldn't even hear him, and, worse, they didn't care. Harrison, who turned 21 just after that first brief American tour, wondered to the others on the flight home, "How f______ stupid it all is. All that big hassle to make it, only to end up as performing fleas...
...brief 90 minutes, Dido and Aeneas moves briskly and never grates on an audience that may be unaccustomed to opera. In fact, the weakest aspect of the production was the intermission inexplicably added to break up the second act. It interrupted the narrative flow of the opera, pulling one out of a highly effective entertainment...
Because these pieces are so brief, The Devil’s Larder lacks the narrative intricacy that made Being Dead so appealing, and some readers might not fully appreciate Crace’s brevity, or the neatness necessary in such short pieces. Taken collectively, the 64 sketches make a convincing argument about food’s surprising significance in human social life, but Crace’s skill is such that this becomes apparent even in the smallest of portions...
...relaxed and enjoyable directorial debut of Jonathan Teplitzky, is a story of a one-night stand that goes horribly right. When Josh (David Wenham) and Cin (Susie Porter) share a cab ride home after a party in Sydney, it seems only natural for them to have a brief, no-strings-attached fling, especially because Josh will be going back home to London in a couple of days. After they spend a night together, though, they discover that going their separate ways won’t be as easy as they had expected. Wenham and Porter do a great...
...says Decker. “It’s something I do for fun. It’s not something I’d like to make a career out of.” She lights a cigarette and begins to explain, somewhat drowsily, her modeling career, her brief stint in the Harvard Band, where (if anywhere) her modeling career is going next and how that fits into her I-banking plans...