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This effort is the most ‘Hollywood’ score the BSFO has created yet, a plush musical carpet for The Man Who Laughs’s emotional high and lows.
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In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.
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We will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it — and stop accepting bogus substitutes.
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The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.
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Roseanne Barr recently apologized to billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros for claiming he collaborated with the Nazis.
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The show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.
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By taking the stage with 15 musicians, none of whom is female, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents the music as segregated and outdated.
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In contrast to the contrived food shows of today, Anthony Bourdain brought class and vigor as well as creativity to his fascinating stories of food and travel.
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John Prine’s music on The Tree of Forgiveness is alert and nimble – not at all a retreat to the folkie bar.
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Book Commentary: “Fahrenheit 451” and Cultural Betrayal
It never occurs to him that, by championing just the great works of Western Civilization and consigning pop culture (notably science-fiction) to the flames, he’s exercising his own pernicious brand of censorship.
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