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David Johansen is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the New York Dolls, the early-seventies punk pioneers, who have reunited recently for both albums and tours. When he’s with the Dolls, Johansen plays mostly fast and loud, but in the course of his . . .
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Since the nineteen-eighties, Byrne, the co-founder of the band Talking Heads, has been using a folding bicycle to get around the world’s major cities, and his new book is both a travelogue and a reflection on gentrifying urban landscapes. A passionate cycling advocate, Byrne rates ...
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Marton’s suspenseful memoir is the story of her parents, the Hungarian intellectuals Ilona and Endre Marton. Hailed as the last members of the independent press behind the Iron Curtain, the couple flouted the strictures of the repressive regime. They spoke their minds, drove a flashy ...
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In the final volume of Howard’s “Four Seasons” quartet, Mimi, a writer plagued by a heart complaint and an obsession with Central Park, visits the Park daily despite her ever-weakening condition. On these rambles, she encounters characters who will be familiar to readers of ...
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8220;I hate Trotsky!” Winston Churchill told the Soviet Ambassador in 1938. “It’s a very good thing that Stalin has got even with him.” Trotsky, even before one of Stalin’s agents found him in Mexico and assassinated him with an ice axe, was . . .
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DEN: Takeoff and landing delays now estimated at ten to eleven hours owing to F.A.A. balloon-hoax runway search sweeps.
BOS: Elderly and handicapped: Moving sidewalks are out of service owing to electricity cutoff; arrange piggyback to reach your gate by boarding time. Beware of unlicensed or ...
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The other day, Francesco Vezzoli, an Italian artist known for his meta-spectacles—an advertisement for a fake perfume called Greed, directed by Roman Polanski; a trailer for a fictional remake of Gore Vidal’s “Caligula,” with him and Courtney Love sharing the title ...
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The lips are wrong. Well, at any rate, they’re different: thin and pursed rather than fleshy and cherubic. But Christian McKay, the thirty-six-year-old British actor who plays the young Orson Welles in “Me and Orson Welles,” has the necessary stature and the ...
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Manhattan’s one-ring wonder is back for the season. (Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center. For more information, visit www.bigapplecircus.org. Through Jan. 18.)
“WALK OFF THE TURKEY”
On the Saturday following Thanksgiving, this annual eleven-mile ...
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The ...
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METROPOLITAN OPERA
Jack O’Brien’s production of Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a hit of the 2006-07 season, uses big sets and broad emotions (and some of the same singers) to make each of the three one-acts—the tragic ...
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Fabio
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Where would the City Ballet be without its “Nutcracker”? Balanchine’s 1954 staging of this holiday classic, inspired by his memories of the Kirov production he knew as a child, has been entertaining and delighting children (and their parents) ...
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paragraph class="noindent">“Fragrance is the most intimate thing you can buy,” Frédéric Malle, a suave Frenchman, said the other day, showing me around the newly opened Manhattan branch of his Paris-based company. “It’s with you even in ...
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paragraph class="noindent">Mime, the hand dance that we sometimes see in ballets, has two functions: it looks beautiful—like the steps, it’s set to the music—and it advances the story. One of the loveliest (and longest) mime “speeches” on the stage ...
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goatTitle-->“RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR”
This show has it all: high-kicking Rockettes, dancing toys, a live orchestra, ice skaters, 3-D visuals, fireworks, and even a donkey or two for the final scene, the climactic “Living Nativity,” a feature of the very first ...
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There is hardly a more traditional way to experience the glories of George Frideric Handel’s “entertainment” on Christian themes than to hear the work performed by the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, the best Anglican choir in the country. ...
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Ursula Meier directed this drama, starring Isabelle Huppert, about the disruption of a family’s life by the construction of a highway. Opening Nov. 27. (In limited release.)
ME AND ORSON WELLES
Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. Opening Nov. 25. ...
