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What's most deeply pleasurable about You Kill Me is its unique tone. The script by Christopher Marker and Stephen McFeely (who number the rather different Chronicles of Narnia among their credits) is not one that goes for big laughs. It offers, instead, a steady mutter of eccentric situations and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Kill Me: Gently Winning | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

Even as a child, Paravicini's ear for music was remarkably advanced. But his technique "was very eccentric - mainly karate chops, thumbs and knuckles, elbows," says Ockelford. "But all on the right notes." It took 10 years to teach Paravicini how to play using the more conventional method. Now he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Got Rhythm | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

This season, to celebrate the centenary of the first Ziegfeld Follies (which opened at the Jardin de Paris, Broadway and 44th Street, on July 8, 1907), the Encores! management led by Jack Viertel staged three musicals inspired or produced by Ziegfeld's grand old revues. These were extravagant revues featuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Fabulous Follies | 5/12/2007 | See Source »

Atget was said to be short-tempered and eccentric, and in his 50s stopped eating anything except bread, milk and sugar. He and his wife, Valentine, a former actress, hung out with some of Paris' leading dramatists - though he left behind not a single portrait of friends or associates. One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rue Awakening | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

OK Go! is scheduled to make an appearance at a Lampoon fund raiser in the upcoming weeks, rounding out a month that already saw an appearance by Ratatat...Some artsy types decided to forego Third Eye Blind (I know, we’re surprised too) and instead listened to poets...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: chatter | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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