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The Monkees at the Mann
The very late show
The Monkees started as an artificially contrived Beatles replica in 1966 and evolved into genuine purveyors of catchy rock songs and goofy stage antics. Their recent reunion tours found their three survivors in stronger voice than any other '60s rock group.
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"Natasha, Pierre': A musical "War and Peace'
Heeeere's Napoleon! Or: Why didn't Tolstoy think of this?
A musical War and Peace with a three-course Russian dinner in a carnival tent? This kitschy hybrid of dinner theater, story-telling and campy night club act is the latest example of a new trend: adapting the classics for film and stage, with each production trying to outdo each other in ingenuity, artistic excess and chutzpah.
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Why was 'The Big Sort' overlooked?
The tribalizing of America
A five-year-old book offers an explanation for Americans' contemporary divisiveness that's still relevant. Yet I haven't met a single person who's heard of it, much less actually read it.
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A detour along my road to romance
In search of mature love (but finding only immature lovers)
As a devotee of great romantic novels and movies, I spent decades searching for D.H. Lawrence's sensuous gardener from Lady Chatterley's Lover. After seeing Never Again, I switched to exterminators. Would you believe I'm still searching?
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Laurel Hill's "Cinema in the Cemetery'
This cemetery really comes to life
Give Laurel Hill Cemetery credit for an astute marketing perception: Cemeteries, like horror films, offer a safe, contained and even exciting way to tap into our deepest fears and anxieties.
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Madoff redux: "Tom Durnin' in New York
The swindler's homecoming
The sensational saga of the Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff is the stuff of which powerful dramas are made. But unlike Willy Loman or James Tyrone, the central character here (like Madoff himself) is utterly unsympathetic.
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Was Hitler an Expressionist?
Hitler rehearsing a speech, 1925: What the camera tells us
Hitler denounced the German Expressionists as "degenerate artists." But a set of photos from 1925 suggests that he may have been the greatest Expressionist of them all.
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Art Museum's "Collecting For Philadelphia' (2nd comment)
Calling Professor Harold Hill
I can well understand why arts administrators, arts journalists, fund-raisers, philanthropists and civic boosters would be interested in a promotional show like “First Look.” But why would anybody else?
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"Noises Off' at People's Light (2nd review)
Noises off, nothing on, and what's missing?
You have to marvel at Michael Frayn's inventiveness. If only it weren't so cold and calculating.
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The lure of science fiction: an insider's view
On the shores of unexplored seas: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Do readers turn to science fiction because they're bored? Or because it offers a vision of the future universe that only our minds can comprehend?
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