RARE OBJECTS UNVEILED!
OVER 30 RARE OBJECTS UNVEILED at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM)! Pages from Gutenberg Bible, the Salem witchcraft trials!INFO: 866-745-1876 or www.pem.org.
Sep 13
2011
Sep 12
2011
9/11
I was there. Right in the middle of what up until now remains the defining moment of 21st century America. We had just taken off from Logan airport, 15 minutes ahead of the terrorists, some of whom had spent the night at the Days Inn-- right next door to WBZ-TV. They were probably there the [...]
Sep 11
2011
Movie: Contagion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g CONTAGION begins with a mounting sense of dis-ease, which spreads like a virus through the all-star, "Oscar" infused cast as each one plays his or her part in what is about to become a pandemic! The tension mounts-- we see the whole globe engaged as the action proceeds smartly along on many levels. Director [...]
Sep 07
2011
MOVIE: THE DEBT
https://youtu.be/Yjg5t3__lLs THE DEBT opens with an intriguing bang, and closes with an fatiguing clang. But its two leading ladies had me at hello: Dame Helen Mirren queen of the movies, and Jessica Chastain the Meryl Streep of her generation-- with 3 big movies out this summer (THE TREE OF LIFE, THE HELP), and at least [...]
Sep 02
2011
THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS
There will always be a few nights at the theater that I will remember my whole life, when I was swept up in something truly thrilling and sublimely beautiful. Last night was one of those nights. I sat transfixed at the A.R.T. as Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis sang us to Nirvana in the new [...]
Aug 25
2011
MOVIE: ONE DAY
https://youtu.be/uLUWHW5NxwI This beautiful afternoon which I spent indoors, at the movies, seeing ONE DAY--was one day well-spent. Though flawed,the film based on the best-seller stars a charismatic twosome: the multitalented Anne Hathaway who here does a serviceable English accent, and the already English and mightily talented Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE). ONE DAY calls on [...]
Aug 23
2011
MOVIE:SARAH’S KEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmxnNxiNWA&feature=player_embedded Who could make up a tale like this? Who ever heard of a locked door that no one was curious enough to open? Who ever heard of a man on his deathbed suddenly leaping out of that bed and producing a document that clears up all the family mysteries? Who ever heard of creating [...]
Aug 14
2011
MOVIE: THE HELP
I loved the book. Couldn't wait to see the movie. The trailer gave me pause--nothing subtle here and that proved to be true. It's more pat and somehow smaller than Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel, but it's an engaging, if candy-coated take on the social milieu of a very American group of characters on the cusp [...]
Aug 10
2011
THEATER: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL!
ALL'S WELL (It certainly is.)THAT ENDS WELL (It certainly does.) I'm referring to this summer's FREE offering on Boston Common by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company! Artistic Director Steve Maler has served up one of Shakespeare's most infrequently performed comedies, studded it with some of Boston's brightest theatrical talents, and set it shimmering under the night sky [...]
Aug 03
2011
MOVIE: CRAZY STUPID LOVE
SEE ABSORB LOVE. The film is a triumph of chaos and delight-- I had NO idea where this was headed --which I love!!! It begins with a perfectly calibrated scene in a restaurant between Steve Carell and Julianne Moore, their characters married for 20 plus years-- when he orders creme brulee and she orders a [...]