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...feel / I'll show you what to do / We don?t do sincere / Everything taboo"), to a haunting lament for the passing of Warhol?s 15 minutes (You?re Out of Fashion), along with a batch of soulful and melodic ballads. At times, the show has the over-the-top rock emotionalism of the 1980s musical Chess - another great score scuttled by a problematic book. Ten years from now, I can see a cult developing around the music for Taboo the way it has around the score of Chess. Count me a charter member...
...personalities. This could have been Stoppard’s fault; his female characters function more as foils to the men than as lively figures in their own right. Eda Pepi ’06, as Henry and Charlotte’s daughter Debbie, was a memorable but absurdly over-the-top sexpot. And Sam G. Rosen ’06 deserved recognition for his bit part as Billy, Annie’s lover, if only to laud his extraordinary comic rendition of a speech from John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She?...
Anyway--sigh--I told them that banner was over-the-top, but those darn sailors insisted...
...Danny Boyle, the film opens with England devastated by the “rage” virus—everyone seems to be dead, except for Jim (Cillian Murphy), who must survive zombie attacks and find the few survivors that are left. The story gets a bit too over-the-top by the end, when it veers into Heart of Darkness territory, but overall it provides entertaining thrills and chills. The music and cinematography are great, and the cast of unknowns does an admirable job. 7:30 p.m. $8.50, $7.50 before 5 p.m., $5.50 members. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle...
...buyers who demand wearable clothes, the magazine editors who respond only to overstyled looks that make good pictures and the celebrities who need outfits to illuminate the red carpet. In the late '90s many young designers--Jeremy Scott springs to mind--tried to make their mark with over-the-top, fashion-forward creations. But today rising stars like Bryan Bradley of Tuleh, Derek Lam and Zac Posen focus on creating clothes that please private clients, celebrities and stores...