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Really? Post Oscar Hooey
March 9, 2010
Get a load of this, from Backstage.com . Tick, Tick, Tick: the obsession with the clock has driven this year’s Oscarcast producers to insanity’s edge…
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Golden Boy
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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Lucille Clifton, Poet 1936-2010
February 17, 2010
sisters by Lucille Clifton me and you be sisters. we be the same. me and you coming from the same place. me and you be greasing our legs touching up our edges. me and you be scared of rats be stepping on roaches. me and you come running high down purdy street one time…
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Dancing in 3G
February 14, 2010
Published Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Spring 2010 It’s the new inevitable. A cellphone rings at the theater/a meeting/a museum/a formal dinner/fill in the inappropriate place. The shattered mood is further scrambled by the offender’s mad dash to silence it, followed by contrite apologies, or the opposite: I’ve witnessed instances where people actually took the call…
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Sir John Dankworth 1927-2010
February 11, 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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Mattachine Men
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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J.D. Salinger 1919-2010
January 28, 2010
Or Jerome David, as he was known to his folks. Author of the penultimate coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye (and my personal favorite half-novel Franny and Zoey). RIP.
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The End of the Year
January 28, 2010
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Roger Waters, Wish You Were Here By the time we made it to Washington Square Park, 1993 was already half a…
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The Absent Friend…
January 27, 2010
Dan Collin Seymour May 27, 1954-January 27, 1993
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Jean Simmons 1929-2010
January 25, 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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