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...films, Sir Ian demonstrates how a lifetime of stage wizardry can be poured into a screen character. In Apt Pupil he is, in director Bryan Singer's phrase, "an old, alcoholic, sitcom-watching Nazi" hiding in California anonymity 40 years after the war and amused to perform a facsimile of his old mischief on a curious teenager (Brad Renfro). As Whale in Bill Condon's film, McKellen is sunset charm incarnate, a gay man melting inside his decaying body for the gross, cheerful fellow (Brendan Fraser) who works in the garden. It's Chekhov in lavender...
Sears and Conner will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street. Their show is titled, "Oh Kay, Oh George," after the composers Kay Swift and George Gershwin...
Sears and Conner plan to perform Gershwin favorites such as "Stairway to Paradise," "Love Is Here To Stay," "Strike Up the Band" and some of his obscure pieces such as "There's More To the Kiss Than...
Somerville Theater seemed like a rather unusual place for Williams to perform--the theater's interior is scattered with an odd array of gilded Corinthian columns painted black and silver reminiscent of severe Ayn Rand lightning bolts. The rest of the theater had an almost sickingly disproportionate amount of mauve. A mostly middle-aged crowd, situated comfortably in plush seats, waited anxiously for Williams arrival...
...than the main act, giving the audience both "La Grippe," a bizarre fusion between blues, jazz and funk about the influenza pandemic of 1918 and an extremely extended rendition of "I've Found a New Baby," a 1919 song in which every band member was given a chance to perform a solo. Drummer Chris Phillips juggled his sticks and then oranges handed to him by the band, all the while continuing to play; bassist Stu Cole played between his legs as Mathus and Whalen handed out the beads they'd been wearing to the audience...