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Having shown the wrong that was committed (the destruction of a classless culture in America), and the causes (a hierarchical, money-conscious elite that sought to divide itself from the riff-raff), Levine is free to assess the damages...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: A Time When Popular Culture Included the Fine Arts | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...equally seductive but infrequently heard tone poem, The Wood Dove? Instead of Beethoven's pawky Second Piano Concerto or the overplayed Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn, why not Rimsky-Korsakov's dashing Piano Concerto or Carl Nielsen's melancholic Violin Concerto? Instead of another Brahms' First Symphony, how about Joachim Raff's spooky "Lenore" Symphony, once greatly admired in the 19th century, or Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's brooding Fourth Symphony, written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...tidbits about cast members and Rocky-related events. Even the original cast members have stayed involved with the movie. Over the years, Piro has met most of the other cast members. "When I was over in London, I met Richard O'Brien, who wrote the movie and played Riff-Raff," he says...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Lindauer submitted the film to producers at Channel 5 earlier this year. "I saw at the beginning of the summer some of the stuff [Lindauer has] been doing and it blew me away," said "Nightshift" Producer Jason Raff...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: Channel 5 to Air Student's Film | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...some of the best I've ever seen. Technically and graphically it's far, far above average He used about every technique known to a filmmaker," Raff said. "The problem with putting his stuff on the premiere is that it might discourage others" from submitting work to the show...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: Channel 5 to Air Student's Film | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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