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...obvious inspiration is Federico Fellini's 8-1/2, in which Guido, a moviemaker with director's block, is beset by memories and fantasies as he dodges all the women in his life, from mother to wife to whore to mistress to muse. Caden has women problems (wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea...
...highlight of the evening, by virtue of the two stars on loan from New York City Ballet, Maria Kowroski and Albert Evans. Kowroski, in a startling flesh-colored leotard fashioned like a bikini, had the unenviable task of taking on a role created on Wheeldon’s muse Wendy Whelan, largely inimitable in her otherworldly, limbless, spider-like movement. “Liturgy,” however, is not another one of Wheeldon’s “insect” ballets, nor is it acrobatic, and Kowroski was able to employ her signature endless, elastic legs...
...said, Wow, this is a man who inspires me for this collection because he's all about change and hope and to challenge the future.' ?Donatella Versace, on choosing Barack Obama as the muse for her spring 2009 menswear collection...
...muse of history had turned out to be a Hollywood exec, green-lighting a bad remake of a crummy original. (The guy who decided to give us another Knight Rider, for instance...
...students to the Harvard University Art Museums. “I think we’ll actually be able to do more,” she says, “because it’s forced us to be creative.” But Blackstock, Vice President of OUR MUSE, worries that the Sackler’s museum space may be less inviting to students than the Fogg was. “The question is, how can we get people over the fear of going into museums?” she says. “The majority of our events...