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After jamming together on repeated occasions, they decided to form a band in the fall of 1960, adding bassist John Kerry and drummer Peter Lang to round out the traditional four-piece garage band lineup. The enthusiastic group called themselves the Electras, after the then-popular car model manufactured by Buick...
...spout some of Miller's windiest metaphors, but his gruff philosophizing is dead serious. The only real figures of ridicule are the pompous husband-and-wife acting coaches (modeled on Lee and Paula Strasberg) who hold Kitty in their sway. But even those caricatures (entertainingly acted by Stephen Lang and Linda Lavin) seem to grow out of Miller's genuine animosity, not plucked from a shelf of prefab Hollywood clich?...
Even Helmut Lang, who last week sold the remaining stake in his company to majority owner Prada, went commercial, with a collection of fresh cotton suits and sexy draped and knotted jersey dresses inspired by Greek togas. Viktor & Rolf, the Dutch duo who launched their first perfume, Flowerbomb, with the cosmetics giant L'Oréal, gave the safari jacket and the tuxedo a feminine edge with ribbon trim...
...20th century, the long-reigning archetype of the keyboard virtuoso, the temperamental Eastern European ?migr?, in the mold of Artur Rubinstein, was on the decline; impresarios, critics and audiences were growing despondent at the dimming of star magnetism among the new generation of players. The scene was set for Lang Lang and Yundi Li, two young Chinese musicians who are today the emerging stars of the rarefied world of concert-hall pianism. Both men were born in 1982, and have exclusive recording contracts with the Deutsche Grammophon label?long a mark of eminence in the field...
...pianists both possess awesome technical mastery, but their approaches to the repertoire are quite different: Lang is a young Chinese Horowitz, pounding the keyboard with bravura intensity, whereas Li is a lucid interpreter with a poetic sensitivity, reminiscent of Artur Schnabel or Rudolf Serkin. After their respective debuts in America last year, the critics responded with the kind of ecstatic raves not seen in a long time. Richard Dyer, a critic at the Boston Globe, declared that Li "has the talent, the looks and the personal charisma to be a standard-bearer for a new generation." Following his recital...