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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1993-2010
December 27, 2010
Gone the way of Jim Crow, and every other heinous bit of marginalizing legislation. RIP, you bastard.
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Let nothing you dismay
December 18, 2010
I knew the dark days were here when I snapped at a woman over wrapping paper yesterday. I was minding my own business at Jack’s when she appeared, musing out over whether to buy this gift paper or that. Slowly it dawned that her loud utterances were an attempt to suck me into her indecision…
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Blake Edwards, Film Director 1922-2010
December 17, 2010
On the set of The Days of Wine and Roses in 1962. R.I.P.
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No Place for Politics in Art
December 13, 2010
Not to mention religion. Below is an excerpt from the New York Times Arts Beat Blog, a response to the Smithsonian’s recent excision of the late David Wojnarowicz’s (pictured above) work from their current exhibition, after harassment from the head of the Catholic League and a few bullying Republican Congressmen. Bravo to Wachs and his…
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Ancient Evenings
December 5, 2010
When I first moved to New York I knew a girl who fancied herself a kind of Holly Golightly. Oh, her nights! Always, she was full of stories about the latest film that mustn’t be missed, or that cool art opening she crashed the previous weekend. She represented the possibility of inclusion: one day those…
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Swan Lake’s Great Escape
November 11, 2010
Published Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Winter 2011 After a bravura Broadway run in 1998, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns to New York’s City Center this fall. Amazing how little things have changed since this revisionist take on Petipa’s classic ushered in a new era of dance theater. Then as now, our political times were in…
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Jill Clayburgh 1944-2010
November 6, 2010
There’s a hole in the world. Or, to spin it like my yoga teacher, nothing’s broken, it’s neither right or wrong: things are just out of…balance. The GOP is gaining again, ironically invoking their nauseous less-government mantra as they fight like dogs to give the rich a tax pass and legislate morality re: telling me…
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A Sensual World
October 17, 2010
Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Winter 2011 Watching the late Pina Bausch’s torrential Vollmond made me marvel at the theater’s ability to mirror life. The show, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, arrived in New York at the end of what could accurately be described as The Week of the Monsoon. …
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Arthur Penn 1922-2010
September 29, 2010
(Penn, right, directing Gene Hackman in Night Moves) Goodbye to the great Arthur Penn–cinephiles should honor him by taking a second look at some of his notable works (try your local library). Some favorites: The Miracle Worker Bonnie and Clyde Little Big Man Night Moves The Chase
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Gloria Stuart 1910-2010, Eddie Fisher 1928-2010
September 27, 2010
Stuart, top, in The Invisible; Fisher, bottom, flanked by Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds in what could be called the triangle of the century.
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