Word: haring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resurgence of jazz in popular culture is another reason for the proliferation of jazz clubs in Cambridge, says John O'Hare, an employee at Charlie's Tap Jazz Club...
...jazz all the time in commercials," O'Hare says. "Five years ago, the cool thing to do was to bring a jazz musician to the restaurant. Hip- hop artists use jazz all the time in their music. Now, the rise of R & B and sampling [the mixing together of disparate music styles] has really helped jazz expand. It's opening up people's ears to other kinds of music...
...Dench's American moment has arrived. Last year she received an Oscar nomination for Mrs. Brown; her Golden Globe nomination this year for Shakespeare puts her back in the Oscar game; and in April, she will appear on Broadway for the first time in 40 years, starring in David Hare's Amy's View, a 1997 London hit. She has even gone mainstream--playing M in the James Bond movies...
...smitten London critic described Nicole Kidman's performance in The Blue Room as "pure theatrical Viagra," but the medication Broadway has needed most in recent weeks is Valium. As David Hare's new play, in which both Kidman and co-star Iain Glen appear briefly in the nude, prepared to transfer from London to New York City, trend-conscious theatergoers seemed headed for a nervous breakdown: the clamor for tickets exceeded anything in recent Broadway memory...
...morning after. The Blue Room is Hare's adaptation of La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler's once scandalous play in which 10 characters engage in a daisy chain of sexual encounters. Hare updates the play in predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder...