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Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There ... Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain...
Lest the audience seek any respite in the comfort of the everyday world, the setting of Dido, Queen of Carthage looks and feels as dark and cold as outer space. When in one scene Dido, Aeneas, and their courtiers go hunting, the sudden appearance of staged “daylight” is beautifully painful, revealing vulnerable men and women so damaged by reality that they seem more at home in the gold-and-black no-place of the remaining scenes...
...focus of the event was clearly Faith herself, both because of her impressive litany of credentials (among them multiple Tony nominations, a Tony award for her portrayal of Miss Adelaide in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, Outer Critics Circle awards, and Drama Desk awards) and a certain intuitive stage presence even when she’s not ostensibly performing. The flame-haired, pouty-lipped actress presided over the roughly 40 audience members in discussions on both specific musical interpretations and general lessons on artistry, performance, and success...
...though not usually as explosively (nor over as long a period) as the business of dividing up time with one's kids. In both Australia and New Zealand, one child in four lives apart from one of his natural parents. What troubles many is that the parent on the outer is usually the dad. Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than 70% of cases that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia to a 2003 parliamentary inquiry into custodial arrangements after separation. That mightn't sound like an outrageous imbalance...
Saturday, February 19. Harvard Pops Orchestra presents Pops in Outer Space. 8 P.M. Paine Hall. Tickets $8; students $5. Tickets available through Harvard Box Office...