Word: eclecticism
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When Showfolk Business Manager Neal Levin needed investors to bankroll a Chinese dim sum diner named Bao Wow in Los Angeles, he naturally turned to clients, including Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, Singer Melissa Manchester and Satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. The first Bao Wow in Beverly Hills was a dog...
Classics are intimidating. Directors often hesitate to stage them unless there is a way to reinvent the texts as contemporary, or at least to impose some setting and style not obviously intended by the author. Every production needs a point of view, to be sure; no play mounts itself. Yet...
Unbelievable is the other word on every first-timer's lips. They do not necessarily mean Al Capone's 16-cylinder bulletproof Cadillac (with gunports and authenticating documents) on display at the Imperial Palace. Nor are they referring to eclectic concoctions like the Stardust casino, which features show girls "direct...
Some of the shapes, materials and images that resulted are currently on display in an exhibition at New York City's Whitney Museum, "High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design." The show, which includes 300 pieces of furniture, craftworks, tableware and household appliances, was assembled by six different curators and seems...
And like the people who "live" here, the decor captures the eclectic avant-garde. From the spotlighted Michael Jacksonesque staircase leading to the dance floor to the oversized Roman balustrades, this place is a spectacie. The people and the decor are both intended to be new and shocking.