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Directed by Stephen Frears (“High Fidelity”), the film opens in late l930s London, with a recently widowed and very bored Mrs. Laura Henderson. Advised by her friend that widows are allowed hobbies or better yet, younger lovers, Henderson purchases a run-down theater and hires an experienced stage manager, Mr. Vivien Van Damm (Bob Hoskins of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”) to run...
...Hernandez bathed in an unearthly light.But these easily-recognizable prints can be found in art galleries around Boston. What is unique at the MFA is context and variety: photographs of Manhattan that Adams took when he visited the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York; poignant and funny pictures of run-down Western towns; a crazy photograph of sodium calcite crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams’ last pictures, an aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange that evokes the powerful feeling...
Dorm renovations? No; with the epidemic of floods, the bizarre heating fluctuations, roach infestations, and general run-down condition of the suites I’ve had occasion to visit, that can’t be the case. Perhaps hiring and training better teaching fellows? Clearly not—no explanation required. No, while any of these other worthwhile endeavors would seem a logical place to start utilizing such an abundant sum of money, I’ve figured out what’s really going on—they’re spending the money on ice cream...
...Saturday's serial bomb attacks in New Delhi that killed at least 55, save this: there may never have been softer targets. Police?who received a warning of the attacks 20 minutes before the initial blast?said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks. Both areas were favorites of lower-middle-class Indians. And when...
...agency enrolled Benjamin in a sitcom-acting class with people literally just off the bus from Kansas. He had no interest in sitcoms and found "a few of the exercises silly," but even while doing improv skits in his classmates' run-down apartments, Benjamin recognized that acting gave him a different kind of creative freedom. "As a [musician], I have a set image, and no one wants to see me sad or anything. But in acting, you're allowed to be whatever. You can be embarrassed. You get a chance to cry. People expect you to be real...