Word: rebellion
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...Tommy. There's not much emotional depth or adolescent rebellion left in the granddaddy of rock operas as reworked by California's La Jolla Playhouse. But this Broadway hit has an arresting light show, superb storytelling by director-adaptor Des McAnuff and that great Pete Townshend score. Maybe it will finally win a place on Broadway for the propulsive sound of rock...
...Theater owners are so greedy,” he says, citing their unwillingness to make the leap to digital. That last comment, along with the aforementioned quotation about Star Wars being a blip, reveal what just might be the central tenet of the McCallum ethos: constant rebellion against the force of film-industry conservatism, all in the name of wild entertainment “You’re losing 15% of your audience every year because the adventure of going to the theater is no longer there,” McCallum says. “The average kid?...
...comparison. After all, three hours is only about how long it takes freshmen girls to play a single game of beer pong (which they shouldn’t even be playing anyway—shame on them).The only plausible explanations for our silly nocturnal behavior involve youthful rebellion, or a culture of openness and experimentation. But once we probe the fallacies of these rationalizations, I hope that an 11 p.m. bedtime will seem a bit more appealing.Certainly staying up too late is one of the most time-honored affronts to authority. That’s why slumber parties were...
...does the Arcade Fire insist on making such insipid music videos? The first offender was “Rebellion (Lies).” Not an outright failure, but undeniably a clip starved for imagination. There was probably no budget, so you forgive them, even though the only thing in the whole video keeping your attention is the fuzzy glow between Richard Parry’s drum and his drumstick, and even that can’t get you through the unintentionally humorous blanket-shaking scene. A few months later, “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”: basically...
...matches? Of course, there were plenty of them at the conference, too, but the merest hint that it might soon be fashionable to be young and conservative in Britain confirms the significance of other developments. There's the retirement of Joschka Fischer, the iconic figure of the politics of rebellion; the discovery that many young European Catholics are more traditionally devout than their parents; even, perhaps, the rejection by younger voters of the draft E.U. constitution in the Dutch and French referendums. Put all that together and you can detect the start of something new. To a remarkable degree...