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Stephin Merritt Showtunes (Nonesuch) 3 of 5 Stars As Stephin Merritt releases go, the concept behind this one is pretty simple: between 2003 and 2005, Merritt—founder of the Magnetic Fields—wrote the scores for three operas. Then he compiled selections from them onto a single record, named it “Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004?...
...Dershowitz is conscious of how fickle people are about preemption and how slippery the concept is itself...
...knows that the concept is tough to grapple with and before he can pontificate—which he rarely does here—he must first explain and explore...
D?j? vu is, of course, a French concept, and it?s happening all over again this week as students battle police outside the Sorbonne in Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...
...Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that...