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Attraction Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE FORBIDDEN JOURNEY (Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando)
HIS JOURNEY IS NOW YOURS Universal’s Islands of Adventure has always been one of the most astounding theme parks imaginable. But the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter actually puts the rest of the park to shame. The world offers guests a one-of-a-kind experience complete with multiple attractions, shops and a signature eating establishments. This completely immersive environment…
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TRUE GRIT directed by Joel and Ethan Coen – with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper – Movie Review
GIRL MEETS MEN She arrived in Fort Smith with two long braids, her father dead in the street, bent on revenge and calling it justice. All of 14 years, she carried the aura of a professional. She would quote the law. She would spook old men. She would hire the marshal least likely to take…
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THE FIGHTER directed by David O. Russell – with Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo – Film Review
SOMETHING TO FIGHT ABOUT I once referred to Christian Bale as The Actor Most Likely To Tick Off His Wife By Staying In Character Over Dinner. Shortly thereafter, to my amusement, I read an article in which Bale admitted this was true, that his method actor’s commitment sometimes got on his wife’s nerves. With that…
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THE GIRL FROM NASHVILLE by Steven Michael Walters – Dorothy Strelsin Theatre – Off Broadway Theater Review
THE ETHICS OF MURDER Steven Michael Walters’ (Glenn Reed on NBC’s Friday Night Lights) The Girl from Nashville, marketed as a Southern Gothic tragedy, is adequately southern and adequately tragic, but takes the gloomy part of Gothic to the extreme. A deconstructed story about what appears at first to be a senseless murder, this production’s…
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Film Review: THE TOURIST (directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE MOVIES THAT TAKE PLACE IN VENICE ONLY I suppose it’s at least a small accomplishment that The Tourist ends in the exact place that it’s been going all along — with its too mega-stars, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, in white tux and evening gown, dashing and bejeweled on a sailboat…
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HEMINGWAY’S GARDEN OF EDEN directed by John Irvin – adapted from THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Ernest Hemingway – Movie Review
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S HONEYMOON Picture one of those seaside cafes on The Riviera from the idyllic literature of pre-depression jazz age.  Everyone’s well mannered; clothes are pastel; sailboats bob in the sun; the air seems rarified. Young writer David Bourne  has just married rich, spoiled, pretty, poisonous Catherine. They’re footloose on an extended honeymoon. “I’m…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: VIEUX CARRÉ (The Wooster Group at REDCAT)
THE PASSION OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS “You know, I heard some doctor say on the radio that people die of loneliness’¦.They do. Die of it, it kills ’˜em. Oh, that’s not the cause that’s put on the death warrant, but that’s the true cause. I tell you, there’s so much loneliness in this house that you…
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Tour Review: WEST SIDE STORY (National Tour at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre)
WEST SIDE TRAVESTY If  the West  Side Story at the Pantages Theatre were a college production, it might pass muster, particularly if your favorite niece or nephew had a part in it. Otherwise, what you will see bears as much resemblance to the recent Broadway revival as a farm mule does to a thoroughbred racehorse….
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Tour Theater Review: NEXT TO NORMAL (kick-off of National Tour at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles)
THE NEW TRADITION OF AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL WORKS-IN-PROGRESS In the evolutionary process of the modern Broadway musical,  Next to Normal is still somewhere between ape and man; for all the pioneering and innovative writing, intriguing subject matter, and outstanding performances, the finished product left me  frustrated that it didn’t live up to its own potential. There are…
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Theater review: HYPERBOLE: ORIGINS (Rogue Artists Ensemble at [Inside] the Ford)
ADULT CHILDREN’S THEATRE If Hyperbole: Origins were to be reviewed as a play, I would tell you that I had no idea what the playwright was trying to say; since no writer is credited, we’ll just assume that the Rogue Artists Ensemble is merely musing over the origins of things, such as music, fire, sin…
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Broadway Review: A FREE MAN OF COLOR (The Beaumont at Lincoln Center)
THE RETURN OF JOHN GUARE, WITH MIXED RESULTS High expectations lead inevitably to disappointment while low expectations often lead to pleasant surprises.  Having read Ben Brantley’s drubbing of A Free Man Of Color, John Guare’s historical comedy of the Louisiana Purchase, I expected to be bored to distraction by an unfocused gumbo of a play.  …
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS (The Flea Theater)
CHRISTMAS LITE It’s Christmas Eve. John (Michael Micalizzi), an aspiring novelist who worships F. Scott Fitzgerald, has just been fired from a job wherein he wrote trade paperbacks based on comic strips. He can’t decide whether to go to his friend’s party and get drunk or just go home. Charmian (Allison Buck) is an aspiring…
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BLACK SWAN directed by Darren Aronofsky – with Natalie Portman – Film Review
WHAT I DID FOR BALLET The Criterion version of the classic 1953 musical The Band Wagon includes a brilliant lost dance number by Cyd Charisse called “Two-Faced Woman.” Â The lanky Texan with the French married name performs a delirious routine in a sleek black outfit. For all the Technicolor appeal, the outtakes reveal something you…
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TEATRO ZINZANNI: LICENSE TO KISS II, A SWEET CONSPIRACY by Norm Langill – The Pier 29 Spiegeltent on the Embarcadero – San Francisco Theater Review
LOVE, CHAOS AND DINNER There was a moment toward the end of License To Kiss II, A Sweet Conspiracy, Teatro ZinZanni’s latest 3 and ½ hour gastronomic theatricopia (my word) when I thought, “There is nowhere else in the world that I would rather be than right here†– and with good reason. We are…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, THE MUSICAL (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
BAFFLING MUSICAL GETS THE TREATMENT IT DOESN’T DESERVE What do Miss Saigon, Grand Hotel, City of Angels, Aspects of Love, Will Rogers Follies, and Meet Me in St Louis have in common? They opened during the 1990-91  Broadway season, and all of them (City of Angels  to a lesser degree) are problematic with either awkward scores and/or…
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Theater Review: THE LIMITATIONS OF GENETIC TECHNOLOGY (Theatre of NOTE)
IT’S NOT NICE TO FOOL WITH MOTHER NATURE Tacky commercials for Global Cytodynamics play on large video screens as we enter Theatre of NOTE, advertising improved lifestyles through genetic alteration, including that of learning, memory, pleasure and belief systems. Projection designer Steven Calcote and the always extraordinary sound designer Cricket Myers brilliantly take us into…
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TANGLED directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard – Movie Review
RAPUNZEL – THE INTERNET-RESEARCHED VERSION Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair / Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen ’¦. As a friend of mine noted, we are entering an age of collective amnesia. We no longer have to remember anything anymore. There are no long debates over beers about factual details. If there’s…
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Broadway Review: ELLING (Ethel Barrymore Theater)
AN ADAPTATION OF A FAMOUS FILM YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF GOES TO BROADWAY (SANS DISASTROUS RESULTS, THIS TIME AROUND) Kjell is a big, soft, gentle slob of a boy in a man’s body.  He’s unwashed, unshaven and, to put it nicely, slow.  He wears his over-sized heart on his unwashed sleeve.  A forty-year-old virgin, any…
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Broadway Theater Review: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS (Lyceum Theater)
THE TRUTH – IN BLACKFACE The sheer exuberant energy of one of the most formidably talented casts on Broadway rushing down aisles and onto the stage of The Lyceum is enough to knock any theatergoer out of his post-dinner lethargy and into head-bobbing, knee-pumping involvement. Once again the unconventional Kander and Ebb (Kiss of the…
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HARPS AND ANGELS music and lyrics by Randy Newman, conceived by Jack Viertel – Mark Taper Forum – Los Angeles Theater Review
AN UNABASHED LOVE LETTER TO MICHAEL McKEAN Dear Michael McKean, I hereby declare that I am unashamedly besotted with love for you. Why? Because last night, I saw you take a handful of songs by Randy Newman and watched you become a different character with every song, turning each into an exquisitely dimensional one-act play….
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