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...says Byrne. "No matter how outrageous or eccentric their act was, they were very sincere about it. There was a lot of heart in the performances." Byrne discovered that film can be as subtle and malleable as the tracks of a recording, which may account for the sense of glee, of risks that paid off, that pervade True Stories. Says Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), who directed the extraordinary Talking Heads performance documentary Stop Making Sense in 1984 and served as an "active friend" to Byrne during the making of True Stories: "You couldn't name a more exciting...
Accountants and financial planners, whose busy season normally arrives near April 15, have an autumn rush on their hands. "The accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution...
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 will speak to about 450 invited guests about his days as an undergraduate when he rowed crew and sang for the Harvard Glee Club. In addition, President Derek C. Bok and the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge--which John Harvard attended--will address the dinner guests, said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-chairman of the celebration...
Glitz and Glee...
...swiftly in Deadwood, presumably so that judge and jury could get back to gambling, drinking and whoring, the town's principal activities. Standing the myth of the American West on its head is % not a new trick. But this time out, Dexter performs it with unusual skill, grace and glee, particularly in his presentation of Calamity Jane. No act of violence or natural appetite passes without a graphic description. This is Blazing Saddles for grownups...