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...confession of weakness: the undersigned is a sucker for time-travel movies. Good, bad or indifferent, films that plop at least one character down in the wrong century--where his or her dress, customs and conversation befuddle and occasionally outrage the temporally challenged locals--always delight...
DIED. BILL BISSELL, 70, longtime band director for the University of Washington who in the early '80s invented, with an associate, the wave--the cheer in which fans stand and raise their arms section by section, causing improbable delight among football fans everywhere; in Bothell, Wash...
...danced to it in the 1946 "Blue Skies." But Astaire was the third star to sing it on film. First was Harry Richman, who had a #1 hit when he premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno-pop version that went...
...chariot; Midas (in the chair) and his daughter; Orpheus and his underworld voyage. Writer-director Mary Zimmerman's lovely, deeply affecting work (an off-Broadway hit moving to Broadway in March) recaptures the primal allure of the theater--it's fake; isn't it wonderful? Using stage devices that delight with their low-tech ingenuity and a text that modernizes without patronizing, it shows that theater can provide not just escape but sometimes a glimpse of the divine...
...America's disappointment, of course, is bin Laden's delight. If he manages to survive the massive U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, he wins an important propaganda victory no matter how much of his movement been destroyed - precisely because of the extent to which America's war against him has become personalized. Bin Laden was a relative nobody in the Islamic world in the summer of 1998 when his men bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa. And it wasn't necessarily the attacks themselves that made him the international center of gravity for Islamist anti-American rage...