Word: brooklyn
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LIBRETTOS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple...
...problem here is that the stories, characters and acting rarely justify even feuilleton treatment. The Hollywood agent (Gena Rowlands) who thinks her driver (Winona Ryder) could be a star; the Brooklyn bro (Giancarlo Esposito) who bonds with his German-born cabbie (Armin Mueller-Stahl); the blind Parisian (Beatrice Dalle) who, sigh, sees life more clearly than the African (Isaach De Bankole) in the front seat; the Finnish depressive (Matti Pellonpaa) who relates a you-think-you-got-troubles saga -- these are shaggy- dog stories without a tail. Or, really, a tale...
Lawyer Shaughnessy uncovered similar evidence. His affidavit, filed with the federal district court in Brooklyn, New York, asserts that in November and ; December 1988 the U.S. government intercepted a series of telephone calls from Lovejoy to the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut advising him of the team's movements. Lovejoy's last call came on Dec. 20, allegedly informing the Iranians that the team would be on Pan Am Flight 103 the following...
...most perplexing stepdaughter is Lucy, who marries a patient, loving man. Although the couple move to Long Island and have three children, Lucy's thoughts never stray far from Momma. Each week she returns to her stepmother's Brooklyn apartment, where she complains that her husband "is not the man I married." No hint of the husband's failing is offered, but one suspects he sins only in offering Lucy no tragedy around which to shape her life...
WOODY ALLEN WAS BORN in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up loving sports, movies and magic tricks (viewers of his latest flick, Shadows and Fog, should remember this). He hated school and failed out of New York University after one semester--but Allen continued to educate himself by reading philosophy and literature...