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...first group to perform was the Mariachi Veritas, a group that met Hayek at Logan Airport upon her arrival. Dressed in traditional mariachi attire, the students were greeted with deafening applause after their number that included guitars and pitch-perfect vocals...
...narrating the lives of misfits. This is, however, no dour affair, as frontman Stuart Murdoch’s lyrics seek joy in life’s absurdities and love’s awkwardness. The songs run the gamut from the light and poppy to the sweetly sad, consistently delivering pitch-perfect charm. While the band’s last release, 2003s “Dear Catastrophe Waitress,” stressed the former with instantly-catchy songs and goofy lyrics, their new LP, “The Life Pursuit,” has more gravity to match its sober title...
...Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class to reach land. Contact, of an edgily entertaining sort, ensues. It's a treat to see the pitch-perfect work of two grand troupers: Frances Sternhagen, hopping about like a perky tern, and George Grizzard (Nick in the original 1962 production of Virginia Woolf), who's equally convincing as either a cranky-adorable coot or a statesmen to the lizard world. As seascapes should be, this...
SOAP SEASON 4 Long beforeDesperate Housewives, ABC took soap-opera conventions over the top. Racy for its time (for ours, even) the 1977-81 series features pitch-perfect work from Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Robert Guillaume, who reprised his sarcastic- butler role on Benson. The outrageous final season offers story lines involving a Latin American revolutionary, a possibly alien baby and a kung-fu fortress. Meanwhile, Billy Crystal, as one of TV's first gay characters, begins channeling the spirit of a 90-year-old Jewish man--which, come to think of it, he's been doing ever...
...acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have been turning true crime into artful entertainment ever since Alfred Hitchcock dredged up the story of Ed Gein...