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Sorry, folks, but the show's a hit, thanks in large part to Glenn Close. The actress projects authentic glamour as Norma Desmond, the demented former silent-screen star who wins her final close-up on a police blotter. Close starred in the L.A. production and won the Broadway part after Lloyd Webber reneged on a contract with Patti LuPone, the creator of the role in London; it cost him $1 million to buy LuPone out. Faye Dunaway, meanwhile, was engaged as Close's successor in L.A., only to be fired when Lloyd Webber decided her voice...
...Glenn Gould was at once a passionate musical genius and a neurotic compulsive freak. As quickly as he polished off a Bach variation, he would also consume arrowroot cookies with ketchup, voraciously take tranquilizers by the dozen and spend hours on the telephone calling anyone at anytime just to talk. In his elliptically eccentric little film, director Francois Girard composes a series of thirty-two short compositions that capture the intense peculiarities of the pianist's insanely tortured and brilliant life. The director's minimalist documentary style, while ostensibly unassuming, is as intense as the Gouldian world it unfolds...
...pain he inflicts on his body. The score of the film is--unsurprisingly--superb, with Gould's actual recordings providing the framework. Life and the artist are given to us but with this successful minimalist style, leave us enough room to ponder the madness and strange sensibility of Glenn Gould...
Sunset Boulevard opens on Broadway tonight after debuting last year in Los Angeles. "It's Andrew Lloyd Webber's most seamless score and it features a dazzling star turn from Glenn Close as the faded movie star Norma Desmond," says Michael Walsh, TIME contributor. Walsh predicts it's destined to be a big hit and, like other Webber blockbusters, will tour before long.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
...Tracy's style maybe needs to be reined in, his voracious appetite for competition shall be unleashed for probably as many games as he wants--with apologies to Glenn Robinson, that's called letting the big dog eat, as it were...