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Is That All There Is To The Circus?
I just got back from an exciting show of circus memorabilia at The Bard Graduate Center Gallery in Manhattan, “Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010.” The show took me on a trip down memory lane and...
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The West Side Story Connection: Discovering Martha Swope
As I sang myself out of a recent showing of West Side Story—“Boy, boy, crazy boy / Get cool, boy!”—little did I realize I was summoning up a pelting sleet storm. Umbrellaless, my first thought as I...
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John Thomsen: I Love Lassie (& Mullen the Wonder Cat)
Many of the films I treasure most are by foreign directors. The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr gave me thought-food for weeks after experiencing it. The intense ’90s trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski—Blue,...
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John Thomsen: BAMMMMM!—and the Fly in its Ointment
I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoyed the French film festival at BAM (The Brooklyn Academy of Music) this week, how fortunate I felt as I walked home knowing I live only minutes from this grand...
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Bebe Neuwirth at 54 Below
Kander & Ebb wrote: “You gotta ring them bells, you gotta ring them bells / It’s such a happy thing to hear ‘em ting a ling” Well, Bebe Neuwirth really rang my bells last week at 54 Below, where...
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