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...Krauthammer missed the point. It is whether Bush, because of his privileged background, was given a soft posting while others were sent to Vietnam and whether he failed to serve his country fully. It is fine for a President to talk about patriotism and land on aircraft-carrier decks, but it is not so good for that same President to appear to have had a different standard when it was his turn to serve his country. Mahomed Ladha London...
Nonetheless there were a number of worthy elements in the show. Dick showed perhaps the best instincts in the cast: when she started talking and stopped talking, it felt natural and unforced, not something merely demanded by the script. Hillhouse had many fine moments, exhibiting a crisp, clear voice and a talent for knowing how to throw away a line to get a laugh. Shalhoub handled Beth’s vocal and physical handicaps expertly throughout the show, and Bass offered the right note of impassioned incredulity as Beth’s unwilling love interest...
...paintings that Paul Gauguin produced between his departure for Tahiti in 1891 and his death in the Marquesa Islands in 1903 are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The canvasses are among Gauguin’s most mysterious, colorful and exotic. The exhibition’s Boston stop will be its only showing in the U.S., so be sure to see it while you can. “Gauguin Tahiti” runs through June...
...folk-rock cover band. There’s a substantial baby-boomer nostalgia circuit—my friend’s dad played bass for “The Grateful Dads”—and the Coral could own it. Seriously, the band has some fine musicians and competent vocalists, and they come across as very polished. I bet they’d do a rockin’ rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun,” but there’s no way not to suck given the songs they have written...
...Jonathan Demme’s flair can compensate for a script written by a guy whose past credits include The Sum of All Fears and Doc Hollywood. On the other hand, I don’t think that remakes are necessarily bad, especially with the right cachet; I was fine with paying top dollar to see the Psycho remake, for example, because I couldn’t pass up the chance to see William H. Macy and Julianne Moore slotted into a Hitchcock movie. I would also enjoy a shot-by-shot North by Northwest remake starring Jeff Bridges...