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...that director Mark Bramble uses to create an even niftier Busby Berkeley effect in "42nd Street." This show, a revival of Gower Champion?s 1980 reworking of the 1933 movie, is hardly one that I was clamoring to see back on Broadway. Yet it packs in so much precision tap-dancing, lavishly appointed production numbers, talented performers and delightful Harry Warren-Al Dubin songs (including three that weren't in the 1980 show) that you'd have to be a real grump to complain. The wonderful Christine Ebersole, as the bitchy star who breaks an ankle, finally gets a Broadway...
There is plenty of blame to go around. But Garvey, who is a Democrat in a Republican administration and has what must be the most punishing job in Washington, tap-danced around any overt criticisms of the biggest offenders: the airlines that have overscheduled existing airports into gridlock (and have a history of discouraging the building of new airports); members of Congress who have contributed to the mess; and a 747-ful of government officials who for years have failed to get ahead of air traffic problems...
...half-century now, since Kurosawa's Rashomon triumphed at the Venice Film Festival and introduced Western audiences to the radiance of his country's film tradition, stories about the Japanese have mostly been told by the Japanese. With so much of the genuine article on tap, viewers have no need to get an image of Japan from Americans with a message or a grudge. And if the glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores...
This coming season should be a successful one if the Crimson can capitalize on its existing talent and tap its underlying potential...
...back-burnering. Bush saves face by continuing to insist he can tap the tundra in - enter catchphrase - "an environmentally responsible way," and merely declines to take up the fight in Congress. Remember Social Security privatization...