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I haven't been able to get these glorious songs by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg out of my head, since seeing the new 25th Anniversary Production of LES MISERABLES at the Boston Opera House last week. The show remains a pulverizing extravaganza of story, music, and emotion, as powerful as the first time I saw [...]
There's one thing we know for sure about the 84th Annual OSCARS --Billy Crystal will host, and we will be in good hands. The rest is up for grabs. Here are my stellar predictions, a skill honed practically in the womb and refined during my grammar and high school years as I sat glued to [...]
LOL! This is what Albert Brooks tweeted shortly after the "Academy" snubbed him when they announced their Oscar nominations. If I were the entire Academy, Brooks would have been a nominee in the BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR category for his creepily menacing performance in DRIVE alongside: Jonah Hill in MONEYBALL (I was thrilled this young comic [...]
Friends, my gift to you this Christmas weekend is a review of the most enchanting, witty, and brilliant film at the movies this year: THE ARTIST. More magical than HUGO, more universally appealing than THE DESCENDANTS, THE ARTIST speaks volumes without saying a word. It's a valentine to the movies that will leave you as [...]
Here they are-- the winners of the 2011 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards!! THE ARTIST has just been named BEST PICTURE! It's one of 15 major awards we voted Sunday afternoon (12/11)-- covering film, performances, and technical achievement. It was a LONG meeting with many rounds of balloting-- because no single film had big [...]
What happens when you combine Greek myth and Italian farce?? Two operas within an opera:Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthall's ARIADNE AUF NAXOS--a BOSTON LYRIC OPERA presentation of Welsh National Opera's hilarious and moving production! It all begins when the"richest man in Vienna"commissions not one, but two works for his guests, AND a whizbang fireworks [...]
Just finished having dinner with internationally renowned Chinese cooking expert and cook book writer-- and dear friend Nina Simonds, and her delightful husband Don Rose, formerly of RykoDisc Records and now antique car afficionado and international trader. We are high on snapper, wine,and chocolate,and many stories from Andy Warhol to our crazy families--there's no difference [...]
