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...since childhood. While he is attentive to questions and lucid in his answers, being interviewed is not one of his favorite things in the world. He endures this session by guardedly clutching two sofa pillows in front of himself and takes the first opportunity to cut the interview short, leap up and head to his piano, where he is plainly most comfortable and where he says he spends most of his days. He then offers up a lovely Rhapsody in Blue...
...youth and fertility. Perhaps if Annie Taylor fell over the falls 40 years earlier her story would have been different. Perhaps then we would not remember young and handsome Bobby Leach, the famous "first man to go over the falls in a barrel" (five year after Annie's forgotten leap). Perhaps then we would remember Annie Taylor as the courageous heroine she was. But Murray's effort is not merely to put Annie back in history; Murray's greatest accomplishment in The Queen of the Mist is exhibiting inarguably that history is only human and can be a horribly fickle...
...of29, he's up for his second Academy Award. He wasrobbed in the 1997 race for Best Supporting Actor(though he won the Golden Globe) by Cuba Gooding,Jr., but now he's hit the big time. Norton isalmost unsettlingly talented; in just a few yearsaudiences have watched him leap, chameleonlike,from psycho killer (Primal Fear) to dancingpreppie (Everyone Says I Love You) to thesemi-reformed white supremacist of the year'sAmerican History X. Though the performancewas intense and thrilling, the Academy probablystill feels that Norton is a bit too green for anOscar. Not to worry. He'll be back...
...think those Congressmen who accused Bill Clinton of violating Paula Jones' civil rights would want to leap on this issue. But you'd be wrong. The AIUSA report is more likely to be dismissed as a slanderous liberal assault on the criminal-justice system than as a wake-up call for reform. Like Alfred E. Neuman, its detractors will look deeply into their own heart, pronounce themselves innocent and bury their head in the sand...
...third piece was, once again, a huge leap in an entirely different direction. Called "Below Down Under," and choreographed to the buzzing, eerie sounds of the Australian didgeridoo by Laszlo Berdo, one of the company's own principal dancers, this was without a doubt the most exciting and breathtaking piece of dance that I have ever seen...