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...story itself has more romantic resonance than some of the more self-important Disney tales. Hans Christian Andersen gets a lot of the credit for that, but book writer Doug Wright (Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife) at least managed not to screw it up. Composer Alan Menken (with Glenn Slater replacing the late Howard Ashman as lyricist) has added several catchy new songs to his already fine score; the Broadway-razzmatazz number in which the Ursula, the sea witch (a sharp Sherie Renee Scott), celebrates her evil ways, "I Want the Good Times Back," would have made...
...role for me,” he says. “I would feel very morally conflicted working for a company that had practices that I didn’t believe in, even if I wasn’t involved in it.”But OCS Director William Wright-Swadel says that he doesn’t think that the negative publicity has changed the minds of many job-seekers on campus.“I have not had groups of students come to me [about UBS], nor have I had students come to me about companies recently...
...high school prom scene from the 1999 teen-classic film “She’s All That” (the one where Usher serves as DJ) in “Eyes Wide Shut” and a tour-de-force solo effort by Mollie K. Wright ’09, who is also a Crimson arts editor, in “The Real High School Musical,” the rest of the second half of “Ex-Static” was lacking in that human quality. It’s the kind of individuality...
...story can resume,” writes Robbie Turner, a British soldier fighting in World War II, to Cecilia Tallis, his beloved. He refers to their love story, which both the war and Cecilia’s sister, Briony, interrupt. Director Joe Wright adopts a similar philosophy by choosing Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel “Atonement” for film adaptation: The story can resume—even if the change in medium makes it lose some of its power. The film stays close to the novel that inspired it, as in Wright?...
...film adaptation of “Atonement,” in theatres today, will likely lure many new readers to the printed version of MacEwan’s romance. But could it possibly satisfy the novel’s existing readers? The film version is directed by Joe Wright, best known for his recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which, like this flick, also starred Keira Knightley. As a fan of neither Keira’s wolfish style of beauty nor her interpretation of Elizabeth Bennet, I was originally reluctant to see the Wright...