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Today marks the opening of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, the world's largest annual convention, art exhibit and international debating society. For 32 of those years, we have made our pilgrimage to this Riviera redoubt to hobnob with stars and directors, renew old friendships, sample the superb wines and cuisine under cloudless Cote d'Azur skies and, when there's time, see movies...
...towering movie figure, both uniting and divisive, Wayne can finally be seen as a superb actor, not a Vietnam-era political litmus test. He made more than 150 films, but three of the best are in this package. Stagecoach, his first western with director John Ford, made Wayne a star. Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo was the most genial and communal of Wayne's films, as Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson help him corral the bad guys. In Ford's The Searchers--about a man obsessed by the ravages done to his niece by an Indian chief--Wayne is a cauldron...
...HRDC Mainstage production of Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” is an ambitious effort marked by superb acting, professional-grade production values, and gripping moments of brilliance. It is a cut above this year’s other Mainstage productions, and what criticism can be made of it can only be mounted with considerable qualification: “The Oresteia” aims substantially higher than it achieves, but what it does achieve is far above typical college theater in general—and Mainstage fare, in particular...
...production values behind “The Oresteia” are likewise superb. The incredibly talented Rebecca J. Alaly `05 has crafted a stylized and brilliant choreography like no other seen on the Mainstage: the first two dances of the Furies, in which disjointed, jerky movements alternated with moments of sensuous synchrony, were breathtaking. Melissa E. Goldman’s ’06 impressive, surreal set accommodates all that it needs to while accommodating tremendous amounts of dirt besides; while Thomas E. Osborne’s ’08 light design is alternately eerie and awe-inspiring...
...qualms about Greenspan are dwarfed by fears of what will happen in January when his term as a Fed governor expires. Most Fed watchers agree that Greenspan has done a superb job of shepherding the economy, especially since he has had to contend with two major stock-market corrections, assorted global financial crises, a rash of corporate scandals and 9/11. An economy's success is tied to confidence, and Greenspan has made believers out of marketmakers and policymakers...