Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to life by climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem crazier than Miller's Lomans. What better escape for both households than song and dance? If neither as funny nor as painful as it could be, this Picnic...
Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...
...Trained by TV to be literal-minded and by the zeitgeist to be a bit cynical, today's younger generation began driving the traditional musical toward extinction more than two decades ago. The genre's zenith came, not coincidentally, at the last moment of baby boomers' cultural powerlessness, during the 1950s, when a big Hollywood musical appeared every few months. It's incredible, in retrospect, that An American in Paris, Royal Wedding, Show Boat, Singin' in the Rain, April in Paris, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kismet, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Funny...
Slightly older children are the audience for the four-minute musicals known as music videos. If Aladdin is a traditional book musical, most music videos are not even booklet musicals. VH1 has hired Francis Coppola to oversee a series of special, half-hour music videos directed by important younger filmmakers, and it seems axiomatic that if some new species of live-action long-form musical is to evolve, it will owe at least as much to R.E.M.'s video Everybody Hurts, say, as to Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis. A big problem with Newsies, admits Menken...
...Younger than the painters and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the '20s, Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized, fake-primitive images of blacks -- the Noble Negroes in Art Deco drag -- that others tended to produce as an antidote to the vile stereotypes with which white popular art had flooded the culture since Reconstruction. Nevertheless, he gained self-confidence from the Harlem cultural milieu -- in particular, from the art critic Alain Locke, a Harvard- trained aesthete who believed strongly in the possibility of an art created...