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...Stacks' many duties is to evaluate the news events of each week for the other editors. He acknowledges the debt he owes in this area to his father Harry, a Pennsylvania newspaper editor who is now retired. "He cares deeply about the craft of journalism," says Stacks, "and his concern that it be done well is something I share...
...assemblage of highly trained killers whose simple loyalty to their craft and to one another makes them easy prey to criminals who are merely mercenary...
Prick Up Your Ears is a view from outside, cool as Orton's craft. But Ken Russell has always been caged inside the beautiful mad creatures he imagines artists to be. No distance, no irony, no coherence, no prisoners. And no surprise that Russell now turns to Gothic, Stephen Volk's script about the famous night in 1816 that Byron (Gabriel Byrne) spent with his mistress Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), his lover John William Polidori (Timothy Spall), his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson). From that spectral evening emerged Mary...
...larger, more complex picture. Berenson's scholarship is treated with greater respect than in Simpson's jolly romp through the mud. Samuels ascribes the controversial changes of attributions to advancements in knowledge and techniques, and points out that Berenson usually covered himself by stressing the tentative nature of his craft. Duveen is brushed in as a necessary evil that his aging colleague came to regret. "I cannot tell you," Berenson wrote to his wife Mary, "what loathing all that part of my past and present inspires me with . . . how much of life is scarred and fouled by that connection...
...staged largely by the same team, Les Miserables denies itself the indulgence of even a muted happy - ending: its last image is of struggles to come. Yet also like Nickleby, this epic musical sends audiences out exalted. Handsomely staged, stirringly sung and performed for the most part with consummate craft, Les Miserables nonetheless succeeds not so much for its artistry as for its heart. Far more than an entertainment, it is a thrilling emotional experience...