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...Pitts-Wiley as Leontes was a charismatic physical presence, and his hurried descent into paranoia and nihilism was frightening because it was more than a little persuasive. When an aide questions Leontes’ suspicions, he flies into a nervous rage and delivers Shakespeare’s famous speech of nothings: “Nor nothing have these nothings, if this be nothing.” It stands in stark opposition to Hermione’s graceful nobility...
...After all, Antigonus turns out to be the victim of Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” It’s grim and horrible and everything, but come on. Bears are funny...
...upper echelon mingles, and everyone scans for A-listers in the audience. We spot the casts of “Queer Eye” and “Project Runway,” as well as many men sporting the “Stanford Blatch” look, made famous by the “Sex and the City” character: bald, scarf-wearing, dark plastic glasses. Pulsing Euro beats pump into the small tent, overwhelming the audience as they await the start of the show.Tim M. Gunn, “Project Runway” personality and fashion guru...
...says, a fictionalized family history and memoir that contains “more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on.” The result has all the delicacy and richness that have made Munro’s work famous, though it’s not without its forgivable flaws.The book is divided into two parts, the first centering on the lives of her ancestors as they make their way from Scotland to Canada and the second consisting of Munro’s partially fictionalized recollections of her own life...
...like—lumber through the tents in matted fur coats and are ushered to the fronts of lines in droves.The C-list gets priority seating and huge amounts of media attention (I have never seen Kelly Rowland more mobbed for press in my entire life). Really famous people may have attended the shows—according to the paparazzi photos I viewed after the fact, they actually did. But I never saw them. Ever. I did see Laura Bennet from “Project Runway” about 700 times, though. “Is that Anna Wintour...