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“…America's new trinity of love: Dean, Brando, Presley / es. Richard Lewis. Dream: On a sunny afternoon / es. Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Helium. …”
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“…-- Comedy Is Harder: Private Lives; The Underpants -- Prescient Plays: Far Away; A Number -- Clever Ladies: Imaginary Friends; Adult Entertainment -- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take Me Out; Our Lady of 121st Street -- Dysfunctional Families, Dysgenic Dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long Day's Journey into Night -- Smelly Orthodoxies: A Bad Friend; I Am My Own Wife -- Shotover's Apocalypse: Omnium Gatherum; Anna in the Tropics -- Palace and Garden: Maria Stuart; House and Garden -- The Political Power of Puns: Caroline, or Change; The Beard of Avon -- A King and Two Queens: King Lear; Valhalla -- Homeboy Godot: Topdog/ Underdog; Fortune's Fool -- Pyrotechnics and Ice: Jumpers; Frozen -- The Past Revisited: The Frogs; After the Fall -- In the Jungle: Rose Rage; Hedda Gabler -- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's Shadow; Julius Caesar -- Prosecution Plays: Doubt; Romance; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain (Based on Nothing); The Light in the Piazza -- Theatre of the Mushy Tushy: Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées) -- Lear's Lendings: King Lear -- Part Three: People and Places -- Marlon Brando: Contempt for Acting -- Requiem for Jan Kott -- Pieter-Dirk Uys: The Good Hope of the Cape -- Theatre in Australia: The Cultural Cringe -- Theatre in South Africa: Fronting -- MASS MoCa: A Boom in the Boonies -- Hallie Flanagan Davis and the Federal Theatre: Hallie's Comet -- Suzan-Lori Parks: Does Race Matter? …”
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“…Ripley (1999) -- Introduction to part III -- Pete Kelly's blues (1955) -- The Cotton Club (1984) -- Kansas City (1996) -- Introduction to part IV -- Young man with a horn (1950) -- Paris blues (1961) -- Mo' better blues (1990) -- Introduction to part V -- Commerce and New York, New York (1977) : he's delightful, he's delicious, he's De Niro -- Art and Heart beat (1980) : stars fell on Algolagnia -- Brando loyalty and The score (2001) : how do you keep the music paying? -- Introduction to part VI -- His eye is on the sparrow : small-but-significant cinemusical moments in jazz film scores by Miles Davis and John Lewis -- Small-but-significant implications of the man who isn't there in Sweet smell of success (1957) -- Introduction to part VII -- Cinemusical moments in tragedepictions and comedepictions of jazz heroes -- When bad things happen to great musicians : the troubled role of ambi-diegetic jazz in three tragedepictions of artistic genius on the silver screen -- A cinemusicaliterary analysis of the American dream as represented by biographical jazz comedepictions in the golden age of Hollywood biopics : Blow, Horatio, blow; O, Jakie, O; Go, Tommy, go; No, Artie, no…”
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“…Matasins ; Boufons ; Gaillarde (on the ground Cara cosa) ; Brando ; Boufons (Pasemezzo antico) ; Galliarda / anon. Chi passa per sta strad' e non sospira, beato, s'è ; Gentil Madonna del mio cor patrona / Filippo Azzaiolo. …”
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“…From the history of graphic sound in the Soviet Union, or, Media without a medium / Nikolai Izvolov -- Silents, sound, and modernism in Dmitry Shostakovich's score to The new Babylon / Joan Titus -- To catch up and overtake Hollywood : early talking pictures in the Soviet Union / Valerie Pozner -- ARRK and the Soviet transition to sound / Natalie Ryabchikova -- Making sense without speech : the use of silence in early Soviet sound film / Emma Widdis -- The problem of heteroglossia in early Soviet sound cinema (1930-35) / Evgeny Margolit -- Challenging the voice of God in World War II-era Soviet documentaries / Jeremy Hicks -- Vocal changes : Marlon Brando, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, and the sound of the 1950's / Oksana Bulgakowa -- Listening to the inaudible foreign : simultaneous translators and Soviet experience of foreign cinema / Elena Razlogova -- Kinomuzyka : theorizing Soviet film music in the 1930's / Kevin Bartig -- Listening to Muzykalʹnaia istoriia (1940) / Anna Nisnevich -- The music of landscape : Eisenstein, Prokofiev, and the uses of music in Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger -- The full illusion of reality : repentance, polystylism, and the late Soviet soundscape / Peter Schmelz -- Russian rock on Soviet bones / Lilya Kaganovsky…”
“…She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl ; her direction of The Prince of Tides ; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin. …”
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“…Acting matters: noting performance in three films / Brenda Austin-Smith -- Living meaning: the fluency of film Performance / Andrew Klevan -- Play-acting: a theory of comedic performance / Alex Clayton -- Performed performance and the man who knew too much / Murray Pomerance -- Brando sings! the invincible star persona / George Toles -- Reception: film acting, audiences and communities. …”