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When actors become singers, the results can be as painful to experience as a dental appointment with a meat packer who moonlights as an orthodontist. Actress Rebecca Pidgeon (who starred in the plays Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna off-Broadway) has released her first U.S. album, The Raven. Her husband David Mamet (who is the author of the plays Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna) wrote or co- wrote lyrics to five of the CD's songs with her. All of this suggests an unlistenable vanity project...
...even close. The Raven is a slight album, but the material has a consistent sweetness. Pidgeon's voice is light and agile -- it couldn't fill up a concert hall, but she never overtaxes herself and instead achieves an understated, coffee-bar intimacy. She wrote or co-wrote almost all the album's music. She is accompanied by the soft, unhurried, breezy sounds of a piano, acoustic guitars and strings...
...want to spend the day usually set aside for the lacy, the red, and the chocolate-covered avoiding dreaded tutorial reading and relaxing with Raven and Buck, you just might have more luck in Boston...
...prevented any candle-burning Satan worshippers from performing their heretical rituals, there was no dull moon for werewolves, high-winds had grounded the vampires and it was obviously too wet for mummies. The Tories themselves were terribly conservative folks, not really the types to haunt the living. Even a raven or a black cat would have sufficed, but my hopes of spotting something even moderately spooky soon dwindled. At midnight there were no church bells or demons, only the beeping of my watch and the whirr of passing taxis. Ethan A. Vogt...
...Saturday, Oct. 16. "Johnny Guitar" at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16 also. "Love" at 2, 5, and 8 p.m. and "The Kiss" at 3:40, 6:40 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17. "Diabolique" at 4 and 7:50 p.m. and "The Raven" at 6 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. "Hard Target" at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19. "Maedchen in Uniform" at 4:30 and 7:45 and "The Wild Party" at 6:15 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Fifteen Minutes recommends...