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...backstage story as entertaining as this deserves the best of punch lines: rave reviews, big business, Oscars all around. But The Cotton Club-the movie, not the gossip machine-deserves less. The volatile drama that attended its making rarely flares onscreen; working at flash point made no sparks fly. On even the calmest of sets, the premise would have shown promise: to blend the early talkies' two most popular genres, the gangster film and the musical, into a sort of Public Enemy Goes to 42nd Street or, modernized, The Godfather Gets One from the Heart. Why, then...
...Green Acres). Dolly tangles with her alcoholic ex-singing partner, who is also her ex-husband (as in Tender Mercies). Dolly teaches Sly to move country-style (as in the Let's Hear It for the Boy sequence from Footloose). Sly belts out Little Richard's rave-up Tutti-Frutti before an incredulous audience (as in another of this week's culture clashes, Top Secret...
...National Institute of Education (NIE) decided in the fall to award Harvard's Graduate School of Education nearly $8 million for a center to explore the uses of computers to aid elementary and secondary schools' education. The center has been getting rave reviews for some of the innovative ideas it has been considering...
...bright aspect of that toil behind the drugstore counter was that, promptly at 9:15 every Sunday night. George Frazier '33 would stop in for a double-rich chocolate frappe. At first George, who later became a popular Boston columnist and Esquire magazine's jazz critic, would rave about the Guy Lombardo band he heard every Sunday night sponsored by Robert Burns panatella cigars. I soon changed Frazier's musical tastes permanently--and, I'm sure, for the better, by lending him some records by Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols and Bessie Smith...
Opening last Thursday night at Kirkland House and finishing with two shows tonight, Fiddler has received both standing ovations and rave reviews. The musical and acting ability of the cast deserves much acclaim, but the success of any production of Fiddler depends on the strength of the leading character, Tevye, who confides in God and the audience. According to director Grick Neher, "If the Tevye is strong, then the play is strong. If the Tevye is weak, then the play is weak." In this production of Fiddler the Tevye is very strong...