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...Broadway musical Nine. Playing the mistress of a movie director, she arrives in Act I on a satin-bedsheet swing lowered from the rafters. Flaunting her slim but curvy body and looking like Barbarella in '60s-style layered hair and industrial-strength eye makeup, she gives the show a jolt...
...only pleasurable jolt in this revival of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's 1982 musical, based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Sure, there's film star Antonio Banderas making his Broadway debut as the director, and Chita Rivera, in a supporting role, drawing the obligatory cheers for still being able to lift her leg onto his shoulder at age 70. But the show prompts the same question it did 20 years ago: Why turn a movie with one of the greatest film scores ever written (by Nino Rota) into a Broadway musical with mediocre songs...
Caffeine: A little jolt and I’m ready for some more paper writing...
...Naturally, I have a Toscanni’s card. I can feel a jolt just sniffing my Vietnamese coffee...
...this year it has gotten truly pathetic. I don’t know whether to blame the schoolwork, the late nights or the early mornings, but my cravings have begun to take over all aspects of my life. Everyone claims they can’t function without their morning jolt, but in my case it’s actually true. As I gaze at my empty wallet and shaking hands, I think back...