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...Buckley Jr. to William Safire to Patrick Buchanan to P.J. O'Rourke, whose Manichaean world view and scathing wit make them livelier pundits than anyone in the gray liberal establishment. But he is also, and mainly, an old-fashioned radio spellbinder in the seductive Midwestern tradition of Jean Shepherd, Ken Nordine and Garrison Keillor. "Rush utilizes the medium better than any talk-show host I have ever heard," says veteran comedy writer Ken Levine, who with his partner David Isaacs is developing a TV series loosely based on Limbaugh. "He sounds like a good B novel you just...
Branson, too rocky to grow anything but "kids and tomatoes," has long been a tourist town. It drew its early visitors as the setting of the sentimental 1907 best seller The Shepherd of the Hills, now re-enacted nightly in an amphitheater. Things picked up around 1960 with the opening of Silver Dollar City, a turn-of-the-century theme park, and Table Rock Lake, a fish-rich creation of the Army Corps of Engineers. At about the same time came a country jamboree called the Baldknobbers, named for a legendary vigilante group, and still a top attraction...
...Beethoven's Fidelio, in which Miller does not change the 18th century prison locale to one of those voguish operatic places he calls "nowhere and nowhen," but instead treats the work with standard, even standoffish respect. The surprise is Il Re Pastore, an 18th century trifle about a shepherd king who is prepared to give up the throne for his sweetheart. Director Mark Lamos uses a scene-shifting crew of children in T shirts and sneakers, who playfully push four large letters together, forming AMOR. Later, two more letters appear to create the enigmatic TRAZOM. For the happy finale...
...script. Perhaps Li is too soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does not mesh with her reserved shyness...
Meanwhile, Wynton found a shepherd to help guide him back to the source: New Orleans clarinetist Michael White, 35. Unlike Marsalis -- unlike most blacks of his generation -- White took an interest in the city's old-time musicians, learned to play their style and eventually became a regular with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The two men started bumping into each other at airports and music festivals a few years ago and developed a close friendship...