THE INFERNAL COMEDY John Malkovich's two-day gig presented by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount was fraught with tension. He played a serial killer back from the dead hawking his memoirs (Just once I'd like to see him play the normal neighbor next door.) with an orchestra playing arias from Vivaldi to Weber. In the course of [...]
Perhaps the Red Sox should take a break, take a field trip, and see if the solution to their colossal and historic implosion can be found at the movies in the entertaining new film MONEYBALL. The movie champions those who challenge the conventional wisdom -- the ho-hummers who always say, "But that's how we've always done [...]
I woke up yesterday morning fighting off a detached retina. Of course, I didn't know it yet, but those flashing lights I noticed in my peripheral vision while I was sitting in the movie theater, wasn't the result of some idiot texting during the film (that's another blog). So I reported this phenomenon to my [...]
RUN RUN RUN to the Huntington's 30th Anniversary season opener-- a rollicking, moving, brilliantly staged, lit, costumed, and transcendently performed, just plain GLORIOUS production of CANDIDE! This was my first response, and upon further reflection-- I liked it even more!!! It's as if all of life were captured onstage in one bursting-at-the-seams bundle in Tony [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrt2L09PpM
I contributed the following article to THE DAILY MUSE-- a brand new website for smart professional young women! I have always been who I am. I recognize myself in the 4-year-old girl who loved, even then, wearing black pants and a white shirt. I recognize me in the17-year-old girl who couldn’t wait to leave home [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiOF3y1W0Y DRIVE just about drove me crazy. I was so driven to distraction after seeing it-- I nearly drove off the road. This is one of the best films I've experienced all year, an existential action thriller--To Drive, is To Be-- and it should drive its leading man Ryan Gosling straight to the Oscars. The movie took [...]
Here's why Jimmy Fallon reigns as late night's talk show host nonpareil, non compos mentis, non stoppus laughingus. (The video is backwards-- my apologies-- it's the only way it would post!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaAJloeijxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSi3LdUrq18 I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT--but I sure wish the filmmakers had figured out how to make it look as hard as it is. Instead, the movie feels unimportant, and worse-- dated! The movie is based on the best-seller of the same name written by Allison Pearson, wife of NEW YORKER film critic [...]
There is SO much happening this weekend, I think my head might explode! First, there's my birthday. I've noticed there are many Virgos floating around-- I guess many people find themselves "in the mood" around the December holidays. I'm September 18. Me and Greta Garbo. But if you DON'T want to be alone this weekend, [...]
