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...more recent "Hamlet" also looks great in 70-mm showing, though the extra screen size isn't quite as crucial to a film which, despite some lavish and breathtaking cinematography, centers primarily on the expression and delivery of the actors...
...cover story in 1969, she interviewed Vladimir Nabokov in the Swiss hotel where he lived. Her description of the Winter Dining Room there was an early example of her keen eye: "a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation." That was one of many reports that caught the eye of managing editor Henry Grunwald, who promoted her to senior editor. "She dazzled us with her sheer intelligence and her gentle, ironic smile. We knew that we had a treasure in Martha and that...
Rich socialites like Elizabeth von Pfeil, daughter of Francis Zimmern, and lavish-living bankers like Andre Sukjin Lee say the main thing they dread is street crime, long virtually unknown. Lee's town house was broken into recently, and police blamed illegal immigrants from the mainland. "We've been a very safe place," says Von Pfeil. "But what will our police force be like...
Drabinsky has had plenty of theatrical ideas in the past few years, some of them good (a lavish revival of Show Boat), some to be regarded warily (Parade, his next planned musical, is about Leo Frank, the Jewish factory worker who was lynched in Atlanta in 1915 after being convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl), but nearly all commanding attention. Ragtime is getting an extraordinary transcontinental buildup. The show is already a big hit in Toronto, and a second company has just opened in Los Angeles. By the time the show marches to Broadway in December, there will...
...intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...