Word: exceptionality
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...didn’t really care. He would take almost any acting gig that supported his real love, directing. Almost all of Welles’ directorial work from his last twenty years was left unfinished, except for “F for Fake,” which has just been released on DVD in a special edition from the Criterion Collection. And it shows that Welles never lost his talent or relentless drive for innovation; the man characterized as a has-been could keep up with any Goddardian innovator/imitator given half the chance...
Sadly, HRO members say, if someone has grown up around exclusively pop music, the whole idea of classical can seem intimidating and alien. Members of HRO, collectively indistinguishable from their “normal” classmates except for their devotion to classical music, insist that such fears should be shed. The music, they plead, should not be thought of as academic but visceral—appealing for the same reasons as, say, something like “Signs...
...Soul guest on this track!), and it’s hot. It’s not pushing any boundaries, (and, hey, what is these days?) but the video is visually pleasing, and helium-injected earth-chunks being chased by helicopters into the sunset always make me smile—except when they invade my dreams...
...It’s pretty cool,” Mann said, “except, I’m neck in neck with a guy who’s been playing three years instead of four. And I’m pretty sure the record will be broken again by one of the guys who are here...
...theater review that does not address at all the production of a show, except to psychoanalyze it, is no review at all (“Playful ‘Princess’ Strikes Misogynistic Chord,” Arts, Apr. 11). As a member of the arts community, I’m completely exasperated by the repeated lack of substance in Crimson theater reviews. Today’s review by David F. Hill of Princess Ida is no exception to what I have generally found to be a cadre of uninformed and uninterested reviewers. While at the performance that Hill...