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...Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news to Mozart, who craved popular esteem and pointed to it as a proof of artistry. Are Bernstein's Candide, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess frivolous musicals just because they were first performed on the Great White...
Perhaps one of her graduates will become a latter-day Careme, the incomparable 19th century pastry chef to Talleyrand. All it would take is the right proportions of diligence, talent, eggs, butter and sugar, and perhaps a short prayer to St. Honore, patron saint of bakers...
Bird will have none of that. In Forest Whitaker's performance (which is softly gliding in manner, ultimately wrenching in effect), Parker is an innocent, but he is not the victim of anyone but himself. His is the innocence not of the artist saint, self-consciously trying to soar beyond conventional morality, but that of the child egoist, unconsciously trapped in a premorality where appetite -- including the one for music -- is destiny, and escape to adulthood is not an option...
YOUR FACE LOOKS SO FAMILIAR. When the newest conservative saint, Robert Bork, was introduced by Phyllis Schlafly at her Eagle Forum reception in the New Orleans Museum of Art, the glossy crowd applauded him like teenyboppers stomping for George Michael. The Supreme Court Wanna-Be appeared uncomfortable with his rock-star-like reception. After denouncing liberal judges -- "We want a court, not a bunch of left-wing politicians in robes" -- Bork revealed that his newfound celebrity had robbed him of his privacy in public. He noted that at a supermarket recently a woman came up to him, tugged...
...three day Festival of St. Joseph begins Friday night in Boston's North End on Hanover St. Italian food, games, music and arts highlight the saint's day celebration each day from 6-11 p.m. Admission is free...