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Time flies, I thought, as my partner and I wandered the main drag on a recent, all-too-brief trip to Woodstock. The media heralds the 40th anniversary of the event that besieged Yasgur’s farm and a generation’s doobie-fueled conscience, but little of its genuine spirit (what I imagine that to be) lives in the new land…
Continue readingPublished Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Fall 2009 “I think we’re all pretty interesting, and that all of you are pretty interesting.” Michael Bennett Young Mickey DiFiglia’s spirit permeates Every Little Step, the captivating, can’t-look-away documentary directed by James Stern and Adam Del Deo; at one point a black-and-white still reveals this teenager in mid-leap under…
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The man who inspired my favorite film musical now has an exhibit of his fashion photographs at New York’s International Center of Photography. AVEDON FASHION 1944-2000 runs May 15 through September 6. Whether Richard Avedon was shooting models or indigents, few could couple style and subtext so beguilingly. Viva Black and White! Above, Veruschka, dress by…
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Ah come, come quickly, spring! come and lift us towards our culmination, we myriads; we who have never flowered, like patient cactuses. Come and lift us to our end, to blossom, bring us to our summer we who are winter-weary in the winter of the world. D.H. Lawrence, Craving for Spring My ambivalence about spring…
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To have a body that’s its own punch line, or a voice so instantly recognizable it coaxes a smile from the listener—many comics inhabit one or the other genre, or work the two simultaneously, like the great Eugene Pallette (if you haven’t seen The Lady Eve, you’re depriving yourselves of sublime hilarity). Or Dom DeLuise….
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No fun to be found in the papers this weekend. Jack Cardiff, the groundbreaking cinematographer of many films, but notably, The Red Shoes and one of my favorites, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, said goodbye. So did Beatrice Arthur, an actress who did her strong woman number in the TV series Maude and…
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Haul out the superlatives for Every Little Step. James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo have made a documentary that on its surface is about the casting of the 2006 revival of Michael Bennett’s 1975 Broadway smash, A Chorus Line. A wise man once said the theater is a metaphor for life, but one doesn’t…
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