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...inspire simple reactions and simple pleasures. There is so much joy in the way Gene Kelly hops and swoons through puddles in Singing in the Rain, or so much tenderness in the way Ethan Hawke sets his arm around Julie Delpy's shoulder in Before Sunrise, there isn't room for anything complicated. How many emotions in life can be so simple, or so pure...
This is truly the product of the witty screenwriter Alan Ball, a graduate of sitcom gigs, and the director Sam Mendes, fresh from such theatrical triumphs as the Broadway revival of "Cabaret" and the acclaimed roundelay "The Blue Room." Mendes, working on film for the first time, is extraordinarily self-assured, inspired both with his actors and, more impressively, his camera eye. Fittingly, since the script praises the hidden beauties of the world, this is itself a deeply beautiful film. Its static compositions by Conrad Hall are overloaded with vibrant colors and symmetries that make you almost want...
...There are so many techno/house/blahblah boxes on Lansdowne that Bill's Bar stands out most as a live music venue. The stage takes, well, centerstage in a room plastered with rock n' roll obituaries. The new big thing here is Monsta Mondays, featuring local and touring old school rock bands. This continues the tradition started in the now defunct Mama Kin. Sundays feature reggae and Underground Thursdays dish up anything alternative. Everybody's a friend here. Talk to any of the staff, all of whom belong to one band or another, to find out what's going...
...over the last two years, something has changed. The conversation above took place not just behind any closed doors, but the closed doors of my own room, between my roommate...
Stopping in this morning to visit Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the Duke of York meandered with the professor and about a half dozen friends to the Faculty Club on Quincy Street, where they ate lunch in the club's upstairs dining room...