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...computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director not much better with the ensuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth's Lusterless Golden Age | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...accordion and euphonium. The different instruments tonally enrich the tracks, often creating beautiful oceans of sound and offering a refreshing alternative to Beirut’s contemporaries. However, the highlights of the album come when the clamor dies down and frontman Zach Condon is left singing accompanied only by one instrument. The ukulele of “The Penalty” comes like a cleansing sorbet after the decadence of the previous songs. “Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route)” begins simply, but Condon can’t resist indulging in his horns. Most...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beirut | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...Essentially, they wear black crushed velvet hooded capes, sing a ritualistic chant at the beginning and end of meetings, perform a séance, and then vote on students, head’s up seven up style, if I had to guess. The Gatekeeper counts thumbs...

Author: By Thea S. Morton | Title: The Trainwreck Couple | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...burning draft cards. His next patriotic volley had this chorus: "When they're runnin' down my country, man, you're walkin' on the fightin' side of me." And so when I heard that Haggard had written a song endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, which you can hear him sing on TIME.com, I was more than curious about the motivation for his apparent left turn. And Merle let me know that he was more than happy to talk politics, given that he has a new album, The Bluegrass Sessions, which seems a political and musical return to his family's Okie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Merle Haggard Speak for America? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Braff said a Broadway-style episode of the show called “My Musical” was his favorite since it let him “sing about poo,” and he talked of the show’s popularity among young audiences, saying that “if they had the little Nielsen boxes” in college dorms, “we might still...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Braff Draws Laughs, Despite ’Poon | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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