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...from the Pudding’s comedic venom. The jokes come fast and furious thanks to writers W. Brian C. Polk ’09 and Kathleen H. Chen ’09. “Fable Attraction” boasts a wide array of onstage, backstage, and musical talent. More and more characters enter the mix. These include Pete O’Felia (Mac H. Bartels ’09), a take on the Pied Piper; Oldielocks (Clifford N. Murray ’10), a combination of the old and apparently Jewish woman who lived in a shoe...
...famous balcony scene, lacking in both passion and a balcony, as Romeo athletically hangs from the edge of a bridge-like structure as the lovers’ lips lock. While moving at points, the first act proves more expository than expressively riveting. The hour, in essence, is a talent show, providing the landscape for the story but not the emotion. In the streets of Verona, where the two families play out their feud, the dancers remain in boring clumps as soloists take the center—an altogether too benign opening to such an epic tragedy. From...
...Monster’s Ball,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Candy,” “I’m Not There”), and yet all those who now remember him recall a unique if not unparalleled talent. Rob Reiner’s reflection best captures the feeling of loss: “It’s a real tragedy when someone so talented dies, because you don’t know on the early part of their career what more they could offer...
...disc so terrible. Throughout, Collett sings in a voice reminiscent of Bob Dylan and occasionally even channels the folk legend through harmonica riffs. But while he’s got the sound and the lilt down, Collett possesses only a tiny fraction of Dylan’s songwriting talent. He seemingly lacks the ability to create anything inventive, interesting, or meaningful. From time to time, Collett throws in a couple of different instruments and marginally varies a tune or two, but overall he fails to break out of the small box he has fashioned for himself. Jason Collett?...
...period of years to make it work," says NBA commissioner David Stern. He points to San Antonio, Portland and Utah as prime examples. "The combination of split ownership that moved the team there, the circumstances of Katrina, and the difficulty, in a big hurry, of attracting droves of talent to relocate to New Orleans - it's not a constructive circumstance for the growth of a franchise...