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...within a month of Casablanca, has a similar plot - Paris society belle Joan Crawford is tempted to leave her Resistance-hero husband for American airman John Wayne - but it's miscast, risibly implausible, your basic botch. In The Canterville Ghost (1944), Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features, it might be the climax to Two Smart People (1946), where gunzel Elisha Cook, Jr., falls dead off a balcony during Mardi Gras and lands...
THEATER IN LONDON Was William Shakespeare a shameless propagandist? Or a shrewd critic of the monarchy? One way to decide is to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company perform his full set of history plays - Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI's three parts and Richard III - at London's Roundhouse theater until May 25. The Histories Cycle climaxes with all eight plays in chronological order over four consecutive days - 100 years of royalty and treachery seen through Will's eyes. www.rsc.org.uk by Jumana Farouky...
...divine munificence. But those of us living in the “reality-based community” know this frankly to be false. Not only can we draw on countless examples of sexual extravagance among celebrated pre-democratic statesmen, we know some of our greatest Presidents to have been shameless adulterers, or worse (see: Thomas Jefferson...
...this ten-year-old material, producing a song that survives on Daft Punk’s merits alone. The sampling is so blatant that it’s easy to pretend you’re listening to the original track, which is the only good thing about this shameless rip-off. The album represents a well-executed effort with unabashedly low artistic goals and relies heavily on the myriad high-price producers floating around Island studios. There are two takeaway messages here. First: good production can keep any album from failing completely. More importantly, however, is the insight offered...
...British band called The Hours. The completely animated video adopts the excessive, faux-Victorian, theatrical aesthetic embodied most prominently in the U.S. by The Arcade Fire—think old-timey machines, flickering projector light, and skeletons in top hats. The song is shameless in its attempts to inspire, with soaring lyrics like “Everybody gets knocked down / How quick are you gonna get up?”, but I am only slightly embarrassed to admit that it has been added to my YouTube playlist. That’s the thing, though. As gorgeous and ornate...