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...ANGELES Handmade by master craftsmen in India, Tom Dixon's Beat Lights ($420 each) stand out to Twentieth clients looking for something distinctive...
Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke said he had yet to hear about the proposed name change, but said that he was concerned it might confuse people looking for buildings on Plympton...
...raised in Harlem. He acted in New York's Yiddish theater and directed plays on Broadway. Starting in 1941, he did seven years under contract at MGM, where his very first film showed at the very least that he was a gifted mimic of a great young master. Dassin's 20-min. version of The Tell-Tale Heart, released in late Oct. 1941, was possibly the very first movie to be influenced by Citizen Kane (which came out less than six months before). This short film, with Joseph Schildkraut as the guilt-stricken killer, is positively a-swill in Wellesian...
...French jewel-heist flick Rififi, his cinematic reputation would have been secure. But in addition to taut capers like Rififi and 1964's Topkapi, American director and screenwriter Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted from Hollywood after being identified before Congress as a former communist, was also a master of film noir--exemplified in movies such as 1948's police thriller The Naked City and 1950's Night and the City. Among all his solid works, though, it was Rififi--with its masterly 30-min. dialogue- and music-free robbery sequence as a centerpiece--that remained his most influential film. Dassin...
...Dark Elegies” and George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco.” “This is a sort of 20th century masterpieces program, so it’s a great chance to see three really superb, really contrasting works by real master choreographers of the 20th century,” Rachel Yurman, the program’s moderator, says. “The larger purpose is that our mission is to educate as well as to perform. This is a great way to bring our performance close to not only audiences of today...