Word: epicent
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...Diminished Capacity”, with Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick. And in June, I’m starting a four-month stint in the play “August: Osage County” with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Broadway—it’s a sort of epic drama about a family in Oklahoma dealing with the disappearance of the father...
With his regal posture, searing blue eyes, perfect jawline and a baritone voice bred for noble declarations, Heston was the ideal vessel for Hollywood grandeur. In the 1950s and 60s, the era of the movie epic - those three-hour extravaganzas with a cast of thousands and the passionate enunciation of high ideals - he was the epic hero; it's almost impossible to imagine the genre without him. To any of these films he added millions in revenue, plenty of muscle and 10 I.Q. points...
...movie career that stretched from those student films, to a final appearance in 2003 as Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele (hey, how'd that happen?), Heston would often venture beyond the epic. He made plenty of Westerns, some important science-fiction films, a few comedies (for which he was constitutionally unsuited). And he was willing to fight for directors he believed in. He assured the financing of Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' most satisfying post-Citizen Kane Hollywood film, by agreeing to star in it. He also offered to give back part of his salary so Sam Peckinpah could finish...
...piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise”—a blemish on an otherwise pristine album—illustrates one of Bejar’s occasional problems: his endless flourishes can sound tacked-on when...
...viewer is left feeling much like the girl in the video, waiting for satisfaction that DeGraw simply can’t deliver. Eventually, the video looks like a tribute to Aerosmith, only without the daring, the cutting-edge feel, or the freshness that made their love story videos epic. “In Love with a Girl” takes the pain and the sex out of love and makes it look like a ride in a shopping cart. In one sentence, DeGraw lost sex, love, and rock ‘n’ roll in the department store...