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...shifted the atmosphere Eastward with lightly skittering strings backing the evocative melodies of mezzo-soprano guest artist Susan Graham. Graham carried the audience through the emotional narrative suggested in her performance of three poems, Tristan Klingsor’s “Asie,” “La Flûte enchantée,” and “L’Indifférent.” First wistful, then almost conversational, Graham engaged the audience with her poignant renderings of longing and succeeded in creating an air of mystery, although her performance was more...
...Cunanan became infamous as a serial killer, murdering at the height of his rampage the designer Gianni Versace. Now, his life has become the basis of a new musical, one subsidized by a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and being workshopped at the prestigious La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. While musicals about murders are no longer novelties - Chicago, Sweeny Todd and Assassins come to mind - they are usually generations removed from their audiences. Most Wanted is not only a contemporary story, but it is being produced in the very city Cunanan called home. "There...
...American who attended a ritzy, exclusive school and who knew how to charm his way into the right circles. Reyes is driven by his father to excel and for a while he does get a taste of a life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla sugar daddy catches him with a younger man, Reyes' life spirals into a downward haze of methamphetamine and menial jobs. Reyes then snaps and goes on a murder spree, his victims including his rich benefactor and his boyfriend. Only then, Most Wanted makes clear does he finally feel wanted...
...CARCASSONNE: Latter-day élites can see just how merry life might have been for them in the Middle Ages by booking the medieval banquet at the Hôtel de la Cité, tel: (33-4) 6871 9871. Located within the southern French town's ancient citadel, the hotel is a splendid venue for you and 25 of your favored henchmen to feast on the likes of suckling pig, while jugglers, fire eaters, sword-playing duelers and other menials perform for your amusement. Afterward, sleep off the wassailing in the Villa, a discreet building that is the hotel...
...grief-stricken young father in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel The Lovely Bones, is the problem with male actors today. "The only really good performances out right now are female performances," he says, citing Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There and Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. "Guys are really dropping the ball. I think it's because the women aren't interested in being sexy anymore and the men are. All these guys have objectified themselves and sexualized themselves into being matinee idols." In an era when the holy grail of film...