Saturday, January 3, 2004
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
60 SOMETHING and still hot after the young nubile twenty somethings: Well it is a recipe for heart attack and that’s what grounds good old Jack Nicholson for a week in Dianne Keaton’s Beach house. That’s when the fireworks start. Something’s Gotta Give takes the audience on a romp through uncharted...
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Monday, December 22, 2003
SENTIMENTAL FAVOURITES
Some of the best classical and orchestral tunes of all time are on this album: The Skaters Waltz String Quartet No. 2: III. Notturno 'Thais': Meditation Sleeping Beauty: Waltz The Red Poppy Ballet: Phoenix Artist's Life Waltz Piano Concerto No. 21 In C, K.467: II. Andante Nocturne In E-Flat, Op.9...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Milton's Muse
Of the great blind poet of "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes" and "Paradise Regained" who filled the page with the greatest characters in history and fleshed them out with colour and vivacity, I will sing. Milton, man oh most sublime, divinest biped ever made. Slower crept the chariot time,...
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
THE CRAZY HOUR HAS BEGUN!!!!!
While still pregnant with meaning, obscure or ample, some Christmas ads may also be read as unintended hype: Santa sells everything from ankle bracelets to Club-Z points. The fault lies not in hours, yours, or theirs; nor in minuets or second interpretations, if you please. As sure as the ground...
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Thursday, December 4, 2003
A Trashy Trialogue
Prince Hamlet I am not, and yet the indecisive nature of the Danish noble excites me to a passionate plosive: ”Doggerel” is a verse form ill-suited to all but the most hilarious of ignoramus’s. Doug on “The King of Queen’s” would write in this form; Cliff from “Cheers” would have perfected it’s fine...
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