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...piling on, distorting his son's character and record. And sometimes he would write a letter in his mind to the offender ("You threw everything at him, but it did not work"), and then when he was about to sit down at his PC and fire it off, ŕ la Harry Truman, he thought better of it and swallowed the idea. Maybe that sort of thing will show up in any new memoirs he may write, but not now. Family first...
Come enjoy the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s renditions of Ravel’s “La Valse,” Gershwin’s “Concerto in F,” and Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.” Benjamin Zander conducts; Kevin Cole is on the piano. 7:30 p.m. Tickets from $15-$59, with $4 off for students and seniors and a discount for MTA members. For student rush, go 90 minutes early and bring $8 cash. Sanders Theater. (ECMV...
...Guevara characterized in Walter Salles’ seductive new film The Motorcycle Diaries is a far cry from the iconic figure, sporting beard and beret, found in so many dorm rooms and poetry lounges. This is Ernesto Guevaa de la Serna (Gael GarcĂa Bernal) in his mid-20s, before he was Che. The film picks up Guevara’s life in 1951 as he embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America...
...delight in the Jerky Boys familiar characters, like the abrasive Frank Rizzo, voiced by Johnny B., whose defining characteristic is an unnecessary overuse of a four letter word rhyming with “puck,” the memorable Sol Rosenberg, an annoyingly shy, neurotic, Jewish man, á la Woody Allen, and the hilarious transsexual Jack Tors. Kamal’s participation is comparatively limited to infrequent characters like Tarbash the Egyptian magician and Ali Kamal...
...long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, ŕ la David Spade. He still wears his trademark white suit, accessorized with some kind of high-gloss old-timey shoes, but it hangs a little loose on him. When he reads small print he dons a pair of white-framed glasses...