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Current Affairs, Film, Television, Theater

Corin Redgrave 1939-2010, Christopher Cazenove 1943-2010

Both were Brits who excelled in aristocratic roles.  Corin Redgrave was a second-generation middle child in an acting dynasty whose sisters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave overshadowed his solid career in films and on the stage (though I’ll not soon forget his towering Tony-nominated performance in Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales at New York’s Circle in the…

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Criticals, Dance, Film, Music

Traffic Patterns

Published Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Summer 2010 In the late Eric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon, the film’s hero, Frederic, rhapsodizes about the city: “I love the city.  The suburbs and the provinces depress me.  Despite the crush and the noise, I never tire of plunging into the crowd; I love the crowd as I…

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Film, Television

Robert Culp 1930-2010

A salute to the cool that was Robert Culp, a veteran of TV and film, but most notable as the Bill Cosby’s other half on the groundbreaking (ostensibly because it was the first time a black man and a white man shared top billing in a television show, though their relationship and the intelligence Cosby…

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Current Affairs, Film, Television

Golden Boy

  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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Film, Music

Sir John Dankworth 1927-2010

   Most know him as Mr. Cleo Laine, but if anything John Dankworth was probably more accomplished as a jazz musician, and certainly better known on the UK side of the Atlantic.  If you think you’ve never heard his work before, just think back to the British series The Avengers–that stunning musical opening, a vibraphone…

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Film, Television, Theater

Jean Simmons 1929-2010

  Lovely British actress who never quite got her due despite benchmark performances in Hamlet, The Actress, Elmer Gantry and The Happy Ending.  Above, as Kanchi in one of my favorite films, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s shattering Black Narcissus (1947)

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