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...cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens certain global civilizations and possibly even the human species...
WHAT'S NEW You can't openly monkey with the Superman mythology--there are probably federal laws against it-so to reinvent him director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, the X-Men movies) went subtle, quietly tweaking canonical story lines to roil Supe's placid emotional waters. When the movie opens, Big Blue has been gone for five years, and he gets back to find that Lois Lane has a new guy (!) and a kid (!!). Now, wouldn't that ruffle your spit curl...
...CHALLENGE The X-Men have a problem. Not the threat of Magneto or the fact that a pharmaceutical company has come up with a "cure" for mutancy (jeez, can't we all just get along?). The issue is the loss of Singer (to Superman), who directed the first two movies, and his replacement by Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon), who hasn't yet shown Singer's talent for the shadowy action sequences that are the franchise's specialty. Oh, and Frasier Crane is the Beast...
...Puerto Rican-based Sharks and the white Jets become muddled when Tony (Samuel C. Brondfield ’08), the former leader of the Jets, falls in love with Maria (Rachel C. Porter ’07), the sister of the leader of the Sharks.Brondfield is an undeniably great singer. However, the emotion behind his words is not always conveyed—when singing “Maria,” there is a large disconnect between the poignant lyrics and Brondfield’s expressionless body. This problem does not persist throughout his performance, and he really connects with...
...first hour of their evening rehearsal together, the Harvard Monday Jazz Band and Kuumba Singers sat on the stage of Sanders Theater in complete silence. They were listening to a musician who is a symbol of American jazz.Legendary jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks began a four-day stay as the 2006 Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University on Wednesday. While on campus, he will teach, rehearse, and perform with student musicians.The residency will culminate with a concert tomorrow featuring the Monday Jazz Band and the Kuumba Singers. The musicians will perform selections from Duke Ellington?...