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Fuck's music is a perfect mirror of this message, approaching brilliance with its obvious attempts to evade strict interpretations and confining genre classifications. Fuck draws from diverse styles to create music incorporating Pavement-esque indie-pop, space-age bachelor pad swing, Uncle Tupelo style country twang and '60s Brit-pop, all united by the poetry and grace of lyrics normally found in only the most sensitive of folk ballads. Together, these disparate elements mesh together to create a hodgepodge of influences that somehow manages to persuade the listener that chaotic synthesis is the perfect synthesis...
Hytner, the first of this generation of Brit boy-wonder directors, says he wouldn't have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give...
...theatrical shape now is a critical question, not only for the fading king of the British musical (who just turned 50 and hasn't had a big hit since Phantom of the Opera more than 10 years ago) but also for the British musical in general. Though Brit-produced extravaganzas from Cats to Miss Saigon have dominated the world's musical stages for nearly two decades, now it's the Americans who have reclaimed the lead. The West End is filled with U.S. imports like Rent and Chicago (and Ragtime and The Lion King haven't even applied for passports...
...TRAVEL CHANNEL It is television's responsibility to give us the world without forcing us to interact with it. While the Travel Channel occasionally makes you want to book a flight, it usually cures your wanderlust safely. Lonely Planet, when hosted by energetic Brit Ian Wright, gives you the parts of the world you'd never see even if you decided to use your vacation time to go to Greenland and Ethiopia. Wright will eat anything, climb anything and bother anyone in the cheeriest way possible. Almost as good is Adventure Bound, where insane Australian former bricklayer Alby Mangels delights...
...found at the printer's, which was way-the-hell-and-gone across Manhattan on the West Side somewhere. We would go there on closing night to put the final touches on our creation. This was all very tempestuous. Everybody read proof--I was a proofreader. Brit and Harry also read proof, but they read it with considerable argument. This went on until 11 or 12, or maybe it was 1. Anyway, we would leave some girls reading proof and go out to get the early-morning editions of the newspapers and thus intercept the very last-minute news...