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To call author Jim Collins a perfectionist is to put it mildly. "Good is the enemy of great," says Collins in his comprehensive new book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't. For five years, Collins, the best-selling author of Built to Last...
Understandably, the audience did not let Kissin go without playing an encore, and he generously gave us four. As if the overwhelming virtuosity of Pictures was not enough, the encores were transcendental displays of Romantic pianism. First, he played Balakirev’s arrangement of a Glinka song, â?...
This is not to say that all great biographical filmmaking must center around the verisimilitude of a performance or novel interpretations of events. Indeed, a film like Raging Bull does not achieve its greatness through either of these, but instead more for its enthralling and ultimately tragic story and the...
A viewer of Raging Bull does not need to know the first thing about Jake LaMotta the real man, nor even the first thing about boxing, for the film achieves its greatness through its aesthetic brilliance and through its touching metadiscourse on the sturm und drang of the human soul...
Third, cold war politics made for some strange bedfellows and unsavory alliances. The unintended consequences of gunshot weddings can be considerable: America's support, say, for various tin-pot despots in the name of anticommunism was not the stuff of greatness. But it is not possible to rule out working...