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Napoleon--Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.; Metropolitan Center...
Napoleon [Metropolitan Center]: Abel Gance's long lost cinematic leviathan may well be the War and Peace of the screen. With four-and-a-half hours of film, a new score written and conducted by Francis Ford Coppola's father and played by a 60-piece orchestra, and a three-screen panoramic ending, it may be the biggest thing since The Seventh Seal--or may be even Edison, for crissake...
...critics who have written reams about Napoleon are right, then it must be the cultural event of the year. But how could it be if virtually no one will get to see it during one of the six prohibitively expensive (tickets from $12.50 to 22.50) showings at the Metropolitan Center? The only thing certain is that Napoleon is going to be the first movie ever to have more articles written about it thant there will be people who've seen the show...
Napoleon will be at Boston's Metropolitan Center from November 10 through...
This was clearly a lesson Thomas Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1967 to 1977, took very much to heart. During his tenure, he transformed the Met into a focal point of the art world and the public, performing feats of public relations with practiced deftness. He never hesitated to acquire art, often by questionable means, and enjoyed paying handsomely for his sport. His most notable exploit was the acquisition, in 1972, of the Calyx Crater, a large Greek urn of dubious origin and value, for which the museum generously paid $1 million, plus...