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...many, for that matter, 365 days ago thought that 265 days ago the Patriots would still have "Massachusetts" on their calling cards? Weren't St. Louis, Hartford, et al. ready to take these so many orphans into shelter...
Opera: La Belle et la Bete is Philip Glass at his best...
...turns out, Glass's most fully realized Gesamtkunstwerk has its origins in the movies. For his new opera, La Belle et la Bete (Beauty and the Beast), which had its American premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Glass has finally found the perfect vehicle for his Wagnerism in the film of the same title by the French author, aesthete and cineaste Jean Cocteau. Glass's is the best version of the story yet -- even surpassing Disney's animated movie musical...
...Belle et la Bete, however, goes one audacious step further. The whole 1946 film, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day, is projected on a screen, with English subtitles but without its sound track. Flanked by a seven-piece band of winds and synthesizers (one played by Glass himself), Alexandra Montano (la Belle), Hallie Neill, Gregory Purnhagen (la Bete) and Zheng Zhou stand beneath the screen singing Glass's operatic setting of the script. Glass not only had to get the rights to the film, he also had to pay not to use composer Georges Auric's score; and while...
President Clinton, adopting a policy initiative he's spoken of but ignored for most of his term, may announce a middle class tax cut in a televised speech scheduled for 9 pm ET Thursday, White House aides said today. Clinton has been expected to hit the airwaves since last week -- when the White House promised an address to follow up on his fence-mending speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- and Sunday, Clinton said he would propose the tax cut if he could find a way to pay for it. How? TIME White House correspondent James Carney says...