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...Williams did nothing that day, but who cares?-he played, and the hot dog and soda vendors performed admirably. I can't even recall who won. I'm sure the Sox didn't. But, again, who cares? The game was followed by not one but two rides on the Swan Boats in the Public Gardens, then ice cream sundaes at Bailey's. My brother and I slept on the back couch of the Oldsmobile all the way back to Chelmsford, no doubt dreaming...
...performance by students from a dance school called EDISCA, a troupe that included other impoverished girls from her street. EDISCA (the letters stand for the Spanish name of the School of Dance and Social Integration for Children and Adolescents) was not your average ballet company, and this was no Swan Lake. It portrayed Fortaleza's poorest kids begging at traffic lights and living on the street. "That really affected me," says Da Costa. "The reality in the ballet was just like mine. I hadn't begged, but the lives I saw were very close to the life I was living...
...Joan Riverzation of the Oscars assures that Juliette Binoche's flapper togs and Bjork's swan outfit - beneath which, according to one ABC reporter, she was concealing an egg - will be remembered long after "Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese...
Though complete scores had been written for silent films (as when an orchestra traveled with "Birth of a Nation"), they were usually a pastiche: the "Ride of the Valkryies" for the cavalry charge, "Swan Lake" for the kiss. The early sound era was no different; if anything, early talkie scores were less sophisticated than the full orchestral scores that accompanied some A-level silents...
Yesterday McAfee told students in his class, Religion 1496: "Light in the Darkness: Religious Faith and Secular Values in Contemporary Anglo-American Cinema," that the class would be his "swan song...