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...present, Bagneris is settled, making her home in Jamaica Plain with Andrea, Andrea's dog Mutleigh and their two cats, Lillith and Yehudah, (the latter an "orange ball of fur" named after the symbol for the tribe of Judah--the lion). Once again Bagneris's patented confident grin emerges as she discusses her mentor, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and her insistence that she attend graduate school, (she's a Women's Studies and Afro Am concentrator) and her own varied interests in the "3 A's"-- activism, art and academia...
Just as Seinfeld is quick to give his co-stars and collaborators the lion's share of credit for the show's success ("My real talent," he says, "is in picking people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes...
...filmmaking itself is eccentric in the extreme. Near the beginning, an African lion shows up for no reason at all, and for a moment, we're magically transported into a Terry Gilliam movie. Later, there's a strange homage to The Sound of Music. Long, inexplicable pauses and extended slow-motion sequences account for at least two-thirds of the film's threehour duration...
JOSEPH STALIN 1939 Dealing with the Nazis for the lion's share of Poland...
...Life Last season was a dismal one for Broadway musicals--the off year between Rent and The Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...