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...Leimbach strategically juxtaposes the strength of Lucy's marriage against strength of bonds between the members of the Haskell family. Lucy and Mikey, along with their four children share a bond that Sam relates to, despite his growing entanglement with Lucy. Furthermore, Eli, Ginny's boyfriend who owns a nightclub, adds to the chaos and dishevelment of this network. Everyone is knit together closely...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...
...disturbing expect that the only thing that does tie this music together is the way it's marketed, especially in cities like Boston, which has lots of college students and pervasive college radio. Alternative becomes a section of the record store or a way to advertise the latest nightclub. The alternative rock fan discovers that he is, horror of horrors, part of a target market. We eat the music they feed us, just like the people who buy tapes at K-Mart. It just takes us less time to digest...
...when Eisner calls, architects listen. They know they will be encouraged to create show-bizzy, show-stopping showplaces that millions of people each year will see and enjoy. At Euro Disney, the Pritzker-prizewinning Frank Gehry designed the nightclub center called Festival Disney, whose plaza is guarded by giant towers of oxidized silver and bronze-colored stainless steel under a star-studded canopy of lights. It's as if the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey had dressed up and gone out to strut...
HEAR MY SONG. This Anglo-Irish hit, about a nightclub manager (Adrian Dunbar) who hopes to lure a retired Irish tenor (played with well-calculated reserve by Ned Beatty) from exile for one last concert, has for a time a jaunty, quirky air. But director Peter Chelsom allows eccentricity to deteriorate into cuteness...