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...stage, just below that of his dancing sister Adele, inspired a recycled Broadway hit spun two generations later from his 20s Gershwin show "Funny Face" ("My One and Only" in the 80s). And on the low end, in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks duded up his monster (Peter Boyle) in top hat, white tie and tails to sing an Astaire favorite, "Puttin' on the Ritz...
...reason that the character Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) and many of the other Marvel comic-book heroes strike a chord with my generation is that Parker is a conflicted young man. Our connection to his confusion makes him much more relevant than the do-gooder musclemen that DC Comics and others have produced. That Hollywood could stay so true to Spider-Man's character is admirable indeed. Moviemakers should have opened the comics a long time ago, really read them and listened to comic-book artists and writers. After Spider-Man racks up several hundred million by staying true...
Luther Fox, riven from his family, seeks oblivion. That's not hard to find when you are an illegal fisherman off the remote West Australian coast. Georgie Jutland, a seen-it-all nurse, is looking for healing. They meet. Things get prickly. After Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) and Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang), Winton is Australia's most revered writer. But he is younger and more averse to romanticizing his harsh native landscape. Dirt Music is like that landscape: you can't skip through it, but its unflinching beauty will...
There is as yet no common word to describe this stuff. "Biotechnology" describes the advancements in biology, and especially the creation of new medicines, thanks to computers. "Technobiology" might seem a good candidate, but it already describes the engineering of new plants. Peter Bentley, a British computer scientist, recently published a book called Digital Biology. But the phrase "biology of business" is heard as often as any other, perhaps because now it's investment by business, rather than government, that's driving most of the advances. Money is already being made by the technology's developers--and there's much...
...portrayed flamboyant characters in several campus plays. In Troilus and Cressida he, in leather pants and bare chest, dry-humped a slender blond man. He was active in gay social life at Harvard and Boston and has told numerous friends that his uncle was Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, though the two are not relatives...