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Really? Still?

February 15, 2011

Spotted in Riverdale, The Bronx on Saturday February the 12th…

Thibaudet Among the Philistines

February 5, 2011

Was looking forward to my first Jean-Yves Thibaudet last Wednesday at Carnegie Hall, but things got off to an unpromising start. A man who’d bought the orchestra seat next to mine arrived and barked, “Get that bag out of the way,” as if my briefcase and I had plotted some inconvenient coup. I take rudeness…

Current Affairs, Dance, Music, My back pages

Gladys Horton, lead singer of the Marvelettes, 1945-2011

January 30, 2011

Link: See them sing “Don’t Mess with Bill.” the-marvelettes-don-mess-with-1vwvs_2ey2h_.html They-Were-Great-Once Dept: the day Gladys Horton cajoled a few girlfriends into starting a singing group ultimately called the Marvelettes, they couldn’t have foreseen how happy they’d make a bunch of black kids growing up in Ohio. Their snappy, sexy melodies propelled a street-corner symphony heard around the…

Books, Criticals, Film, Television

Murdering Myths

January 27, 2011

Choose your Hornet… Superheroes are not clowns. They don’t do pratfalls, lack technological savvy, or otherwise behave like assholes. It took a franchise like Christopher Nolan’s to usher in a new era of the comic-book-hero-made-flesh, and to give guys like us (who lapped up the TV serial-versions) grown-up editions compelling enough to rival, and surpass,…

Film, Music, Television, Theater

By Threes: Ellen Stewart 1919-2011; Margaret Whiting 1924-2011; David Nelson 1936-2011

January 15, 2011

Ellen Stewart with playwright Robert Patrick Margaret Whiting David Nelson

Film, My back pages, Television

Anne Francis 1930-2011

January 5, 2011

I loved this show as a kid (heck, anything with superheroes, spies, fancy guys or girls did it for me), Anne Francis was a cool chick who, when she wasn’t petting her ocelot, karate-chopped her way through the single season of this 60s TV series. But I always look forward to her first scene in…

Film, Television, Theater

Peter Postlethwaite 1946-2010

January 3, 2011

One of cinema’s great character faces. Last seen in Ben Affleck’s The Town; Oscar nominated for playing Daniel Day-Lewis’s father (note the odd resemblance) in 1993’s In The Name of the Father. RIP.

Architecture, Theater

Separated at Birth

January 2, 2011

Casa Malaparte… …and the TKTS booth in Times Square

Architecture, Art, Museums/Galleries, Photography

Bountiful Baldessari

December 31, 2010

You’ve only until January 9 to catch John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work, boldly visual and laugh-out-loud funny, ranges over all mediums; some of us find such precociousness a bonus. Go.

Criticals, Dance, Film, Theater

Winter Storms on the Great White Way

December 31, 2010

Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Winter 2011 2010 ends as the country strives to dig itself out of snowstorms that clobbered both the Eastern and Western regions of our nation. The weather feels an apt metaphor for a multiplicity of woes beyond airport delays and unplowed streets—think, for instance, of the snow job visited…

Twilight in the early 90s

Crazy Rhythms in a Night of Love

Becoming an Actor Taught Me How to Write

Dread aught

The Master

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Thibaudet Among the Philistines

Gladys Horton, lead singer of the Marvelettes, 1945-2011

Murdering Myths

By Threes: Ellen Stewart 1919-2011; Margaret Whiting 1924-2011; David Nelson 1936-2011

Anne Francis 1930-2011

Peter Postlethwaite 1946-2010

Separated at Birth

Bountiful Baldessari

Winter Storms on the Great White Way