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...Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...good at casting, costumes, orchestration, design, marketing. Nothing slips through the net." When he does unwind, it is generally at his Steinway grand piano. "Want to hear some tunes?" he will ask, and a moment later will deliver several songs from Aspects in the tuneless dee-dee-dah-dum voice universally adopted by composers...
...about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which it doesn't do when Figaro sings the same phrase. To me that's the orchestra laughing...
...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...
When Perse and Dubois-Dumée spend a day buying the cerebral, sensual extravagances of Issey Miyake, the same general rules apply as when Kaplan cases Armani or when Judy Krull checks out Lagerfeld's surprisingly direct and swellegant new line, the first under his own name. In the showroom, armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts...