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...images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all-intuitively. His body, honed by vaudeville pratfalls, was a splendid contraption. And as a director, Keaton was born fully mature. He was just 25 then, and as eager to mine the potential for film-flammery as he was to design the wondrous gizmos that make his movies one big notions shop. His ingenuity was utterly American; he had a tinkerer's obsession to learn how things work and how he could make them work to comic effect. This was Keaton's world: everything goes wrong; everything moves perfectly...
Repression, as everyone knows, makes for bad sex. But it does wonders for romance, obliging the yearning heart to make wondrous imaginative leaps mostly unduplicatable when you're tangled in the reality of rumpled sheets. It follows, therefore, that Ireland in the 1950s, a place where condoms were illegal and priests braying the glories of continence were everywhere, was probably the world capital of romance...
...became appropriately subdued and careful throughout the delicate contours of the Larghetto. His conducting finally matched the group's intensity. In the Finale, Metamorphosen exercised a wondrous dynamic range with flawless control. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the tempi; the most glaring discrepancy occurred as the group handily beat Yoo to the recapitulation of the first movement's main theme...
...Need to Argue (Island). A wondrous collection of crunching rock and dreamy ballads, heartfelt confessionals and political declarations. There's no arguing that this youthful band of Irish rockers, led by singer Dolores O'Riordan, is maturing gracefully...
...rare TV appearance on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on Monday December 12 (for time check local TV listings). Says Farley: "Even if you don't care for O'Brien's brand of humor, it's worth tuning in that night just to hear Wilson's wondrous voice...