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...show up a half-hour early for the big movies, chat with our film-critic friends, compare notes, plan the next day of too many screenings that, by the Festival's end, are never quite enough. For us, Cannes is the beginning of cinema's liturgical year, our favorite rite of spring, a time for total immersion in international cinema, at a 12-day party (with lots of work, mind you) on the Côte d'Azur. We adore Cannes...
...said. “Of course, some people argue that if you’re smart and you give a good lecture, you’re sexy.” Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who was an outspoken critic of plans to make CUE Guide ratings compulsory for most classes at a recent Faculty meeting, said that the study’s results were “shocking” but “unsurprising.” “[They] might suggest that going online, as course evaluations at Harvard...
Give directorScott Elliot credit. The Brecht-Weill classic has lost some of its power to offend the bourgeoisie, but this audacious new production managed to outrage nearly every theater critic in New York City. Wallace Shawn's new translation goes a bit overboard in its ostentatious crudeness, but the show seems reinvigorated in every way, from the decadent-chic Isaac Mizrahi costumes to a terrific cast of singing actors--among them Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Cyndi Lauper--who make the great, astringent score sizzle again...
...initial response, across the board, has been prudently optimistic. "The last three months, he's said the right things," said presidential rival and vocal critic Charles Henri Baker. "If there's meat behind it, it could be great." Added one Western diplomatic, "He has reached out across the political divide, at home and abroad. He's building a new political tradition...
...little more about it, partly because friend Zoglin, the magazine's theater critic, will weigh in with his words in the issue out Monday; partly because I can't find my notes and the Chaperone publicists said they don't have a script for me to consult. Just one thing: it's odd to evoke the memory of old musicals whose books were inane but whose songs were classics in a new musical whose book is stuffy but whose songs are ordinary. They're knowing pastiche, like the ones in The Producers and its progeny, but not, it's fair...