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...very young Lenny Bruce in a bow tie appears onscreen; he's doing not very funny impersonations. This is far removed from the later and more familiar agitprop Lenny. "Today's style started with Lenny Bruce. See," says Seinfeld, pointing to the screen, "he knew he couldn't be Danny Kaye." But it wasn't the political Lenny Bruce that influenced comics, Seinfeld says. "It was Lenny talking about his life. He had a routine about his wife wanting to have a kid, and he'd say, 'Why bring strangers into the house?'" Seinfeld laughs...
...small television that my husband and I watch the news on, in bed, at night. Our children share one bedroom, and the entire family uses one closet. But we eat, work and play together. You will never see us sitting around a big, fancy room staring at a huge screen, oblivious to the fact that we are a family. By some standards we may look pathetic. But that is how the houses in your story looked to us. BECKY REITER Narvon...
...will do for safety (and in the premiere's stunning conclusion, Jack makes brutally clear what he'll do). Unfortunately, the story line that puts Bauer's daughter in jeopardy again is badly contrived, like last season's soap-opera twist in which his wife got amnesia. But the screen hums whenever Sutherland's on it; he transcends 24's spare dialogue, creating Bauer's bitterness and nobility out of pauses and hard-eyed stares. This should spell another year of recognition for Sutherland, but is the longtime movie actor willing to stick it out in TV? "Ask me again...
...darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries between...
Stevens’ decision to move the drama from the screen to the stage is even more unusual given the lackluster critical reception of the film. The New York Times wrote that the screenplay “has the admonitory blatancy of a wagging finger...