New definition of joy: 85 uninterrupted minutes of my friend Cy Coleman’s songs at the 59E59 Theater called “The Best is Yet to Come.” The tiered stage in black and silver is an art deco version of a musical night club from an old Hollywood movie-RKO, not MGM. Jazzed up with New York hormones to Read More
The old year hasn’t really ended. The new year is still making up its mind. It’s a time for the crumbs-the morsels left over from the banquet that fall on the floor for the dogs.
The movies are off to a roaring thud. Michael Keaton is an actor with charm and skill, but when it Read More
The tree is in the trash, the New Year’s hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouët is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it’s a good time to raise a glass and drink one last toast to the friends we loved and lost in 2004. Harold Arlen and Read More
Good people make mistakes, too, and Shall We Dance?, an arthritic remake of the delightful 1996 Japanese film of the same title, is a big mistake for everyone concerned. Marquees are jumping the gun with pre-Halloween hair-raisers all over town. Shall We Dance? is not a Halloween movie, but it can be blood-curdling watching Jennifer Read More
Where Ya Been, Polly Bergen?
Polly Bergen is Mother Courage in sequins. She’s carried all the torches, fought all the wars, bridged all the generation gaps and surpassed all the trends. Now, for the first time on a nightclub stage in 35 years, she is giving a graduate course in how to survive with style. Read More
The hills are alive with the sounds of … new CD’s! Broadway is dead, and except for the newly mastered, digitally enhanced, spanking fresh re-release print of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window , the movies that are opening now should never have opened at all. Music is the only thing that is getting me Read More
