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William Goldman was known as a consummate Hollywood insider who nevertheless maintained a reputation as a literary-minded purveyor of exceptional cinema.
Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
Christopher Hollyday’s Telepathy is a keeper, Chris Pasin’s Ornettiquette is an excellent outing, Jake Ehrenreich’s A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs is uneven, and for some long winter nights Abigail Rockwell’s Autumn Noir might be just the ticket.
John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.
The more we hear Jane Fonda’s homilies about needing to be “whole” and “self-actualize” the more her personal journey sounds more like a succession of carefully calculated branding exercises.
Yes, the first-ever recording of a opera that is as wonderful as Berlioz and Wagner said it is.
Lonnie Holley’s music on MITH sounds like a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.
“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.
British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
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