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...Girl Talk is reclaiming that virile innocence he lost at Harvard back in November, sweeping the dust from that musical massacre off of his electronic toys, and taking them all to Yale for Spring Fling. And oh, the alternative hip hop group N*E*R*D ("No-one Ever Really Dies." Um, yeah) is also coming. Any group that can sing the line "Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride" with a straight face must be a good...
...never quite cedes control. "Leaving California" is sweeter, and sounds it; built on quaintly out-of-tune acoustic guitars and twinkling piano, it's a credible country waltz. "Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen" grooves like Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" even as it tells a folktale of a doomed girl...
...competent but bland cast. As Tony, leader of the Anglo gang the Jets, Matt Cavenaugh is an attractive, sweet-voiced Broadway leading man, but he doesn't look like he could survive a game of touch football, must less a gang rumble. As Maria, the virginal Puerto Rican girl he falls for, newcomer Josefina Scaglione has a lovely voice and good energy but seems to be acting by the numbers. (Karen Olivo, as her friend Anita, is the only one in the cast who shows some real fire...
...belongs in the very top rank of American musicals. The jazzy, modernist, Gershwinesque rhythms of some of Bernstein's music - "The Jet Song," "America" - are still striking and original. But is there a duller love ballad in any major American musical than "Maria" ("Maria! I've just met a girl named Maria"), or its Muzak-ready twin brother, "Tonight" ("Tonight, tonight/ There's only you tonight")? Who would know that the lyricist would grow up to be Stephen Sondheim...
...stars local fishermen and their families as themselves, a technique she often uses in her work, which blends documentary and fiction. One of her most celebrated films, “Sans toit ni loi” (“Vagabond”), tells the story of a young wandering girl, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), as she marches toward her inevitable death. In preparation for the film, Varda became a vagabond herself, wandering and meeting people who would not only inspire characters in the film, but would also play themselves, speaking lines written by Varda. This is an unusual method for filmmakers?...