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Last Friday began like every other day this summer. I was woken late (but still at an hour that would give any sane college student cold sweats) by a cacophonous chorus of three different alarms, each placed strategically around my room so as to be out of easy reach. By the time I dragged myself out of bed, I had a pulsating headache that would last until lunchtime thanks to the jarring sound of screeching, badly maintained train brakes out my window. Nevertheless, I managed to get showered and dressed in time to make it to my train (no time...
Beyond Howard's performance is the film's beguiling fantasy of community. DJay connects with his old friend Key (Anthony Anderson), who sets up a home recording studio. One of DJay's whores sings the chorus on her boss's song; another turns tricks to raise money for sound equipment. The track is engineered by a geeky white guy (DJ Qualls). When he's dismissed as a doofus white, Key replies, "No, he's just light-skinned"--which must be how Brewer, who has black and white friends from all strata of Memphis society, sees himself...
...master. The irresistible Doretta's Dream, the opera's most famous aria, is sung first by the poet Prunier, a sadder, wiser Rodolfo, whose prominence at the opera's beginning sets the tone for what is to come. The gradual transformation of the lovers' duet into a full-blown chorus in the second act is a magical lyric moment. There is even wit: a sly quote from Richard Strauss's Salome when Prunier describes his ideal woman, and a love duet that deliberately recalls the end of the first act of La Bohème. The melodies are supple and strongly...
...father was handsome (he later doubled for Robert Taylor in horse-riding scenes for the movie Billy the Kid). Her mother Pat was beautiful, a Southern belle who had left her hometown in Arkansas because she had "tired of grits" and had gone on to succeed as a chorus girl in St. Louis...
...annual chorus is a familiar sound to Pat and Larry Moeller. "It's eerie," says Pat. "A couple of weeks ago, there were so many they filled the sky, and there was not a one that didn't have its mouth open." The Moellers live in a white farmhouse on 400 acres of land that used to belong to Larry's father and uncle, and before that his grandfather, and before that his great grandfather. Next year, however, title to the property will pass to a local conservation group called the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. "It's kind...