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...wonderful, but there is little substance. Additionally, while the Italian Riviera is a wonderful setting, the film’s color scheme is so dreadfully dreary that you begin to fervently believe that there simply must be sinister doings afoot—hardly the ideal setting for frivolity and wit. Johansson and Hunt give tepid performances, to say the very least. Johansson, playing the stereotypically naïve Midwestern girl, is insufferably proud of herself. Her American accent jars horrendously with the smooth delivery of the British actors, and she spends so much of the film looking saintly that...
...junkets that Abramoff and Scanlon say they provided to Ney in return for "official acts," the e-mails present in one place the specific elements of a swap that Abramoff has told investigators was prearranged and explicitly reciprocal, according to a source close to the Justice Department probe. To wit: a $10,000 donation to the Republicans just days before Ney inserted into the Congressional Record a statement praising an Abramoff business partner. Ney's lawyer, Mark Tuohey, calls the accusations "totally false...
...terrific concert productions: one modest, one large, both grand. The 1968 Darling of the Day had a lovely score, but this adaptation of Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive practically was: it closed after just 31 performances. The Musicals in Mufti revival in April captured the show's wit and plaintive warmth, wreathing the audience in nonstop smiles. I also loved the Actors' Fund production of It's a Wonderful Life, a musical of the Frank Capra movie. First staged in 1986, the show never got to Broadway, until last week, with a luminous cast led by Brian Stokes Mitchell...
...Sundance film" has become its own genre. This selection of 10 films spawned at the institute or launched at its festival provides a corrective of sorts, showing that the range is wide and imposing. You can still savor the romantic desperation of sex, lies, and videotape, the working-class wit of Clerks, the community of self-aware losers in American Splendor, the devious plot pranks in The Usual Suspects, not to mention the creepy docu-glimpses of family life in Capturing the Friedmans and the creative disarray in American Movie. It makes for the best possible Sundance fest...
...They will also charge subscribers $36 per year. Kim said the new magazine will be an interesting approach to alumni news. “We will deliver compelling profiles, cover important stories, and even break some news,” Kim wrote. “All, we hope with wit, sophistication, and style.” —Staff writer Casey N. Cep can be reached at cep@fas.harvard.edu...