A season filled with hills and valleys of action and excitement ended with rather tame Return to Normalcy in Atlantic City this week.
There were some dramatic reveals (nothing too unexpected, though), inklings of future trouble and even some brutal violence, but it was a little disappointing that things did wind down quite easily for Nucky in the season finale of Boardwalk Empire.
While some of the developments felt genuine, like Nucky and Margaret’s reunion, others felt a little forced. The season wrapped up with a lot of resolutions, but clearly there’s more than enough material for next season.
Nucky’s electoral and bootlegging problems were resolved a little too effortlessly.
With Torrio’s intervention, Nucky agrees to use his influence with the Chicago prosecutor to make Rothstein’s indictment for fixing the World Series disappear, and Rothstein will give him the locations of the remaiing D’Alessio brothers.
There were some dramatic reveals (nothing too unexpected, though), inklings of future trouble and even some brutal violence, but it was a little disappointing that things did wind down quite easily for Nucky in the season finale of Boardwalk Empire.
While some of the developments felt genuine, like Nucky and Margaret’s reunion, others felt a little forced. The season wrapped up with a lot of resolutions, but clearly there’s more than enough material for next season.
Nucky’s electoral and bootlegging problems were resolved a little too effortlessly.
With Torrio’s intervention, Nucky agrees to use his influence with the Chicago prosecutor to make Rothstein’s indictment for fixing the World Series disappear, and Rothstein will give him the locations of the remaiing D’Alessio brothers.
- 12/6/2010
- by tlopez@utk.edu (Teresa L.)
- TVfanatic
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Be among the first to see Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba's latest film at the Vue West End cinema in London's Leicester Square
Oscar®-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain's most famous and successful designer Javier Mariscal create a passionate animated love story. Trueba and Mariscal celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic story of love and heartbreak.
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache
and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a definitive moment in the evolution of jazz music.
Oscar®-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain's most famous and successful designer Javier Mariscal create a passionate animated love story. Trueba and Mariscal celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic story of love and heartbreak.
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache
and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a definitive moment in the evolution of jazz music.
- 11/8/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
We’ve just been sent loads of brand new assets for new movie, Chico & Rita and every single one of them looks fabulous! It opens in the UK November 19th and is directed by Academy Award winning director, Fernando Trueba and animated by Javier Mariscal. If you like jazz, this one’s for you!
Read on to find out more and sroll down to watch the trailer.
Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain’s most successful designer Javier Mariscal’s new animated film Chico & Rita will open across the UK on 19 November, released by CinemaNX.
Trueba and Mariscal, close collaborators and friends for many years, celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic animated story of love and heartbreak, set against the colour and bustle of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
In Chico & Rita,...
Read on to find out more and sroll down to watch the trailer.
Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain’s most successful designer Javier Mariscal’s new animated film Chico & Rita will open across the UK on 19 November, released by CinemaNX.
Trueba and Mariscal, close collaborators and friends for many years, celebrate their passion for the music and culture of Cuba with an epic animated story of love and heartbreak, set against the colour and bustle of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
In Chico & Rita,...
- 10/4/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Gritty realist photographer Bert Hardy captures Audrey Hepburn between takes in starkest black and white – but the elfin charm still shines through
Roland Barthes once remarked that the face of Greta Garbo was an idea, that of Audrey Hepburn an event. The idea, in Garbo's case, was Platonic, a severely abstract dream of perfection. The event or events were the thoughts and emotions that flickered like a magic lantern show across Hepburn's quizzical features. It's never clear whether she is laughing or about to cry, a vulnerable child or an alluring woman. She had, as the musical directed by Stanley Donen proclaims, a uniquely funny face.
Barthes was contrasting essence and existence, and Funny Face is about Hepburn as the embodiment of existentialism, the philosophical doctrine that emphasised our dangerous freedom to make ourselves up as we go along. She plays a sniffy intellectual, discovered by a fashion magazine...
Roland Barthes once remarked that the face of Greta Garbo was an idea, that of Audrey Hepburn an event. The idea, in Garbo's case, was Platonic, a severely abstract dream of perfection. The event or events were the thoughts and emotions that flickered like a magic lantern show across Hepburn's quizzical features. It's never clear whether she is laughing or about to cry, a vulnerable child or an alluring woman. She had, as the musical directed by Stanley Donen proclaims, a uniquely funny face.
Barthes was contrasting essence and existence, and Funny Face is about Hepburn as the embodiment of existentialism, the philosophical doctrine that emphasised our dangerous freedom to make ourselves up as we go along. She plays a sniffy intellectual, discovered by a fashion magazine...
- 7/24/2010
- by Peter Conrad
- The Guardian - Film News
American-born singer and actor who spent the war years in Britain
For those people for whom the words Itma, "Big-Hearted Arthur" and Ambrose conjure up fond memories, and the blitz less fond ones, the name of the American-born singer and actor Evelyn Dall, who has died aged 92, might ring a few syncopated bells. Dall spent the war years in Britain, during which time she co-starred with Tommy "It's That Man Again" Handley and Arthur Askey in a few musical-comedy films, and was a featured soloist with Bert Ambrose's dance band, performing at the Holborn Empire and the Mayfair hotel.
Billed as "The Blonde Bombshell", having filched the sobriquet from Jean Harlow, who had died some years before, the petite Dall, who was cute rather than sexy, gave chirpy support to the two cheeky comedians who traded on their radio fame for their lingering appeal. Dall ("doll" when pronounced by...
For those people for whom the words Itma, "Big-Hearted Arthur" and Ambrose conjure up fond memories, and the blitz less fond ones, the name of the American-born singer and actor Evelyn Dall, who has died aged 92, might ring a few syncopated bells. Dall spent the war years in Britain, during which time she co-starred with Tommy "It's That Man Again" Handley and Arthur Askey in a few musical-comedy films, and was a featured soloist with Bert Ambrose's dance band, performing at the Holborn Empire and the Mayfair hotel.
Billed as "The Blonde Bombshell", having filched the sobriquet from Jean Harlow, who had died some years before, the petite Dall, who was cute rather than sexy, gave chirpy support to the two cheeky comedians who traded on their radio fame for their lingering appeal. Dall ("doll" when pronounced by...
- 5/23/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Matt Damon on patrol in a muddled war story.
Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon
Photo: Universal Pictures
It's only been seven years since the U.S. led a multinational invasion of Iraq that deposed the dictator Saddam Hussein (which was good), but then failed to find the weapons of mass destruction that had supposedly invited our visit (which was very bad). It was a period rich in intrigue and contending characters — the Western intelligence hotshots, the Republican Guards and Ba'ath loyalists, the scheming weasels like Ahmed Chalabi. Who could forget?
Well, anyone could. And so "Green Zone," the new movie by director Paul Greengrass, may be hard for some viewers to digest. Because not only does the picture re-stir that chunky political stew, it thickens it with fiction. And Greengrass, who forged a powerful action style out of hand-held camera work in the second and third "Bourne" movies (among...
Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon
Photo: Universal Pictures
It's only been seven years since the U.S. led a multinational invasion of Iraq that deposed the dictator Saddam Hussein (which was good), but then failed to find the weapons of mass destruction that had supposedly invited our visit (which was very bad). It was a period rich in intrigue and contending characters — the Western intelligence hotshots, the Republican Guards and Ba'ath loyalists, the scheming weasels like Ahmed Chalabi. Who could forget?
Well, anyone could. And so "Green Zone," the new movie by director Paul Greengrass, may be hard for some viewers to digest. Because not only does the picture re-stir that chunky political stew, it thickens it with fiction. And Greengrass, who forged a powerful action style out of hand-held camera work in the second and third "Bourne" movies (among...
- 3/12/2010
- MTV Movie News
Karen Akers, one of America's most arresting and successful concert and cabaret stars will brings her Cole Porter show to The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, Sf, from Oct 27-Nov 1. Performances are at 8 Pm with the Sunday show at 7 Pm. Tickets are $45-50 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through www.ticketweb.com or 866 468 3399.
Karen Akers' show transforms the Rrazz Room into a sophisticated party scene reminiscent of Cole Porter's legendary soirées in Paris and New York. Her new show, Akers Sings Porter: "Anything Goes"! includes such classics as " I Get A Kick Out Of You", "I Love Paris", "Can Can", "Anything Goes", "It's All Right With Me" and "Let's Do It," among others. The show is directed by Eric Michael Gillett, with Don Rebic as musical director.
Her concert performances are just a part of Ms. Akers multi-faceted career, which encompasses theater, television,...
Karen Akers' show transforms the Rrazz Room into a sophisticated party scene reminiscent of Cole Porter's legendary soirées in Paris and New York. Her new show, Akers Sings Porter: "Anything Goes"! includes such classics as " I Get A Kick Out Of You", "I Love Paris", "Can Can", "Anything Goes", "It's All Right With Me" and "Let's Do It," among others. The show is directed by Eric Michael Gillett, with Don Rebic as musical director.
Her concert performances are just a part of Ms. Akers multi-faceted career, which encompasses theater, television,...
- 10/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cole Porter?s love affair with Paris is brilliantly evoked by this delightful farce ? last seen on Broadway in 1938. Master, Baron von Hummer (James Zanelli) and his valet, Gaston (Kevin Kraft), switch places and fall in love with mistress, Mme. Von Baltin (Kate Merrily) and maid, Maria (Jennifer Evans) who have also switched places. Adding spice to this amorous stew is Ida, the Baron?s jilted paramour (Christy Morton), and ?the outraged husband? (Todd Faulkner). Bill Coyne appears as chauffeur, messenger and waiter (at different times).Songs include: I Am Gaston; By Candlelight; Alpha to Omega; At Long Last Love; What Is that Tune?; For No Rhyme or Reason; Let?s Put It to Music; I?m Back in Circulation; I?m Going In For Love; What Shall I Do? This work was written as a chamber piece but arrived on Broadway in a much larger version. Not only are we restoring the original libretto,...
- 3/30/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Award-winning Broadway, concert and recording star KT Sullivan sings the songs of the Great White Way in her upcoming show, Colored Lights, at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko Monday, Feb 9 and Tues, Feb 10th. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through ticketweb.com or at 866 468 3399. Using her own Broadway and off-Broadway experiences as a departure point, Ms. Sullivan performs a century of musical theater gems including selections from Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Lowe, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim and Adam Guetel. The show?TMs New York run at the Algonquin consistently sold out and earned Sullivan rave reviews from the critics. One of the nation's most in-demand interpreters of the American popular songbook, KT has been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York?TMs Algonquin Hotel since 1992. She has performed all over the world, from Town Hall in New York,...
- 1/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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