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...tired!" Bette Midler chirps as she rides onto the gigantic Caesars Palace stage astride a donkey. In THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON, the 62-year-old chantootsie often declares that she's exhausted, yet in her sharp 90-min. act, she seems ageless and indefatigable--strutting, singing, hopping around in a fish tail, cavorting under a 3,200-lb. (1,450 kg) headdress of pink feathers. Showgirl, a slick $10 million production, replaces Céline Dion's elephantine extravaganza with the unique Midler mix: sass, heart and a show-biz salesmanship that's been irresistible since her early days...
...impressive sets played to an audience filled with couples. Stephin Merritt, the band’s singer and songwriter, used the occasion to add another layer of irony to his lyrics. Though he was mostly quiet between songs in the first set, Merritt seemed to become more comfortable with stage banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine’s Day is in the middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped. “How Darwinian.” His dry, somewhat misanthropic sarcasm...
...artificial environment, but somehow reflective of the world they were in.”Galison agrees. “The world of secrecy was diminished in a world that had no secrecy about it,” he says. The solution was to film the interviews on a sound stage, using projected images in the background and narrowly focused, chiaroscuro lighting, creating an artistic effect Galison describes as “highly seductive.”According to Moss, this aesthetic premise of incorporating art installations and projections seemed an appropriate juxtaposition for the film’s subject...
...Arrow Press, the Quincy Cage has come to occupy a special place on campus among students looking for an offbeat place to perform. The Cage has primarily hosted rock bands and pop groups since it opened in the spring of 2002. In its brief history, the Cage has staged performances by a wide range of groups, including a “Star Wars” tribute band and a dual-laptop electronica outfit.Due to construction in Quincy, the Cage was hastily shut down last spring, leaving many campus bands without a place to perform.According to Parker K. Barnes...
...they will be launching a second round of the Accelerator Fund, a pool of private funding earmarked for University life-sciences researchers struggling to enter the commercial arena. “Most of our technologies in life sciences are very embryonic in nature. They’re very early stage technologies,” said Issac T. Kohlberg, director of Harvard’s Office of Technology (OTD) Director, which oversees the fund. “In order to find a partner—be it a company or a group of investors—who are interested in undertaking...