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...Without the New South Wales Film and Television Office's Aurora Script Workshop, from which Somersault is the first feature to be made, these characters might have turned out differently. Shortland had originally envisaged a Scarlett O'Hara femme fatale hooking up with a working-class road worker who lives on the shores of Lake George. Then Aurora introduced her to Oscar-nominated screenwriter Rob Festinger (In the Bedroom) and The Piano producer Jan Chapman. "They just said, Throw out the script and start again," Shortland recalls...
...Hall. These were the shows (with book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse) whose Held-girl-slim plots, witty rhymes and gorgeous scores created the form of the Broadway musical comedy. John McGlinn's meticulous orchestrations, and showstopping turns by Judy Kaye, Jane Connell and Paige O'Hara, restored these wonderful old shows to life, not as quaint artifacts but as living examples of a musical theater that had never lost its ability to transport and beguile...
...Hara Estroff Marano, an editor at Psychology Today who has interviewed college counselors and their students about depression, wonders what happened to sharing one's worries with roommates and friends. A depressed student told Marano she wouldn't dream of telling peers about her darker fears because she saw them as rivals, scrambling for the same grades and grad-school slots. "For many in this generation," says Marano, "there is a sense that you can't show any vulnerability." Pruett wonders if the reliance on medication to handle the blues hasn't weakened some students' nonpharmaceutical coping skills. "Sometimes...
...Hara Estroff Marano, an editor at Psychology Today who has interviewed college counselors and their students about depression, wonders what happened to sharing one's worries with roommates and friends. A depressed student told Marano she wouldn't dream of telling peers about her darker fears because she saw them as rivals, scrambling for the same grades and grad-school slots. "For many in this generation," says Marano, "there is a sense that you can't show any vulnerability." Pruett wonders if the reliance on medication to handle the blues hasn't weakened some students' nonpharmaceutical coping skills. "Sometimes...
...film that made much-loved physical comedienne Lucille Ball a full-fledged statr, Maureen O’Hara and Ball are dancers fleshing out the age-old dichotomy of art as art and art as business. O’Hara struggles to succeed in ballet, whereas Ball gains a somewhat notorious celebrity in a burlesque club. Directed with a keen eye by Dorothy Azner, Dance, Girl, Dance also features snappy choreography by her good friend Marion Morgan. 6:15 p.m. $8 students. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...