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Despite all the cautionary tales, they keep coming. Disney, last year's disastrous Newsies notwithstanding, seems on the verge of turning its hegemonic attentions to live-action musicals: the studio has the splendid composer Danny Elfman (The Simpsons, Tim Burton's films) and Alan Menken, & Newsies' composer, each developing a new live-action movie musical, plus Oliver Stone in preproduction on Evita...
...reversal of normal college theatre procedure, the men in Drood are far better dressed than the women. Costume Designer Tinadetta Lee has outfitted the male characters in several splendid variations of Victorian dress--special note should be made of Jasper's splendid frock coat and purple waistcoat. Other than the gorgeous tatters of Princess Puffer, however, the women are mostly stuffed into badly tailored, frumpy dresses...
...Classicist. Magic Johnson, for all his flair, was a Classicist who controlled the tempo of the game; Julius ("Dr. J") Erving was a Romanticist who played according to his own rhythms. Although he has all the skills and talents of a Classicist, Jordan is a Romanticist. He is a splendid passer and defender, but those skills are subordinate to his individual genius. Any player who goes up in the air not knowing what he is going to do with the ball until he gets there is most certainly a Romanticist...
...Splendid Splinter still turns up in commercials every once in a while, but most of us don't need these occasional glimpses to remember...
...cute kids, their mother dead, their father sunk in despair. A splendid white horse who adopts them. Cruel adults who try to separate boys and steed. A comical-adventurous attempt by the innocents to escape their wicked -- or at least unfeeling -- oppressors...