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...distributes a weekly newspaper and hosts lectures and readings, according to the various advertisements adorning the store’s interior. While O’Leary says that the traffic in the store varies drastically, Revolution was going slowly Saturday evening. A man in dreadlocks and a Che Guevara hat browsed the offerings, but exited before FM could speak to him, warning his fellow compatriots: “Watch out for the mainstream press!” The other two customers in the store took his warning to heart, refusing to reveal their names to FM. But the couple...
...Producers. There's nothing in Young Frankenstein that comes close to, say, the chorus of old ladies doing time steps with their walkers, not to mention the "Springtime for Hitler" extravaganza. The big "Puttin' on the Ritz" number, with the monster (Shuler Hensley) stepping out in top hat and wails, comes the closest. But give Irving Berlin a lot of the credit - with a small nod to Astaire's "Bojangles in Harlem" number from Swingtime...
...sparks fly in Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks' follow-up to his big hit The Producers. But this time the gags are lamer, the songs (again by Brooks) more generic, and there's no Nathan Lane--though the monster's big moment, doing Puttin' on the Ritz in top hat and wails, almost saves the show. Almost...
...Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with the phenomenon of earworms - catchy tunes that loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself...
...corporate world are venal or those who don’t are naïve. The division is amusing to banter about, with the same appeal as an old-fashioned Western, before it becomes real—good and evil are starkly defined, and in theory, wearing the white hat will surely make up for having to order one drink instead of four when out on the town with financier buddies. Meanwhile, the appeal of being able to order the four drinks goes without saying...