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March 8, 2010
It rained in LA. Cablevision and Disney settled. Clooney scowled. Meryl glowed. Cameron lost. It’s the morning after the Oscars, that Hollywood rite-of-congratulation where worthy films often lose, when sentiment and box office determines winners, and where evening gowns posit enough importance to rival the Iraq War. I’ve been a fan of all its…
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February 1, 2010
Harry Hay, Vincente Minnelli, Rudi Gernreich and gay Liberation–this heady mix of characters and history make for excellent theater in the return engagement of Jon Maran’s The Tempermentals. It’s theater for smart people; Maran’s tale of The Mattachine Society, argurably the first organization to fight for gay rights in the US, builds movingly to its climax via a…
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January 19, 2010
Along with her sister Anna, Kate McGarrigle’swas a wry voice dipped in sweet nostalgia. A friend gave me an album of theirs (Love Over and Over) when I arrived in NYC and I was immediately entranced. What was it about those seductive harmonies, often accompanied by an accordian peal? I suspect it tempered the big bad city’s influence–theirs was the sound of innocence melding into…
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November 21, 2009
With her husband Christo, Jeanne-Claude was responsible for one of my favorite New York afternoons–that day my spouse Jonathan and my friends Mark, Nia, Dave and Joe sent out for Central Park to take in the phenomenon that was The Gates. Under those stunning splashes of orange we joined millions of visitors on that cold…
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September 27, 2009
Safire receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the last Bush…the Sunday magazine of the NYT will feel empty without the man who kept us grammatically honest. RIP.
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May 19, 2009
Sad to hear of the suicide of McFarlane, one of the founders of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and more recently, of the Gill Foundation, an advocacy organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights. I keep reading articles bemoaning the lack of gay heroes; McFarlane…
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April 1, 2009
Sunday April 5 is your last chance to catch Martha Clarke’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Minetta Lane Theatre. From its hypnotic opening promenade, as actors enact the evolution of beasts into humans, to its climatic high-flying ascent into a Dantéan hell, this artful interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting (a recreation of a…
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February 23, 2009
In recent years I’ve had my issues with Oscar. The caveats have ranged from the relentless campaigning, to the bone-crushing length of the show itself (sorry, I’m a big fan of sleep on a Sunday night). Somehow the Oscar telecast had lost its sense of occasion; true, I’ve also missed a time when movies…
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January 27, 2009
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame—George Eliot…
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