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Godfather I and II (1972, 1974). Francis Ford Coppola's phenomenal one-two punch. Crime melodrama first as family saga, then as historical epic...
...potent collaborator, Bertolt Brecht. One immediate impression is that the lyricist always has an enormous impact on the composer. Rodgers and Hart is light-years away from Rodgers and Hammerstein. In like fashion, Pirate Jenny of Brecht's Threepenny Opera dwells in a totally different realm from The Saga of Jenny of Lady in the Dark with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ("Jenny made her mind up when she was three/ She, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree./ Christmas Eve she lit the candles -tossed the taper away./ Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas...
...life. Hollywood embalms desire. Hollywood is a necropolis lined with deities made to appear more beautiful and menacing than they really are. Hollywood, In short, is a good read, even when encountered in Moviola, an overwrought, eulogistic novel about the film business. The book is a greenhorn-to-mogul saga with cameo performances by great stars of the distant and recent past. There is even a bit part for Thomas Alva Edison, without whose inventive genius...
...continuing saga of the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) City and Regional Planning (CRP) program took its most bizarre, and possibly final, twist earlier this week as President Bok announced his desire to transfer the program to the Kennedy School of Government...
...more opulent souvenirs of the Bicentennial was educational television's $6.7 million, 13-part series, The Adams Chronicles, a generational saga of early America's most distinguished family. From the patriarchal John and the vigorous John Quincy, viewers could follow the thinning of bloodlines and the refining of sensibilities. In Part 12, young Henry Adams (1838-1918) meets his future wife Clover Hooper at the Harvard Library. "Plato! In the original!" exclaims Henry as he glimpses the spine of Clover's book. "Well," she replies, "I don't like translations...