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Blog Entries by David Finkle from 10/2011

First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way

| Posted 10.06.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Kenny Werner, "West Side Story, Michael Rupert, Frank Loesser, " Willliam Finn, Ginger Rogers, " "Guys and Dolls, Russ Tamblyn, Christian Jacob, "Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway, " Fred Astaire, " Stephen Sondheim, " "Sweeney Todd, "Swingtime, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, " "Elegies, Betty Buckley, Entertainment News

As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cabaret case.

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First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple

| Posted 10.19.2011 | Arts
Read More: Spaulding Gray, Steve Jobs, Foxconn, Jean-Michele Gregory, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Apple, Shenzhen, The New York Times Op-Ed, Jean Shepherd, The Public Theater, Mike Daisey, China, Arts News

During the nearly two-hour intermissionless talk, technology-worshiping Daisey does acknowledge that Jobs was "the only hero I ever had." But that was prior to a trip he made not that long ago to Shenzhen, China and the Foxconn manufacturing plant.

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First Nighter: Woody Allen Sparks Relatively Speaking, While Elaine May, Ethan Coen Lack Luster

| Posted 10.21.2011 | Arts
Read More: " "Midnight in Paris, Donna Zakowska, John Turturro, Mark Linn-Baker, Woody Allen, "Relatively Speaking, "Honeymoon Motel, " Elaine May, " Ethan Coen, Jason Kravits, Grant Shaud, Julie Kavner, Steve Guttenberg, "George Is Dead, " Lisa Emery, " Brooks AtkinsonTheatre, Bill Army, Richard Libertini, "Talking Cure, "Roger Is Dead, Danny Hoch, George Street Theatre, Caroline Aaron, Allen Lewis Rickman, " Santo Loquasto, Ari Graynor, Arts News

Woody Allen's Honeymoon Motel isn't one of his top-drawer laffers and certainly comes nowhere near matching the genuine comic grandeur of Midnight in Paris.

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Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic

| Posted 10.28.2011 | Books
Read More: Shampoo, Jaws, Penelope Gilliatt, Petaluma, Tillamook, Oregon, Anne Kael, Bernardo Bertolucci, California, Bobby Driscoll, William Shawn, Nashville, Steven Spielberg, James Broughton, Sam Peckinpah, Gene Siskel, Pauline Kael, Brian Kellow, The New Yorker, Cinema Guild, Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, Sight & Sound, The Partisan Review, Julie Christie, Roger Ebert, Warren Beatty, Gina James, San Francisco, Last Tango in Paris, Mystic Movie Theater, Robert Altman, Marlon Brando, Viking, Rose Kael, Books News

The only fan letter I ever wrote to a public figure -- other than to child star Bobby Driscoll when I was a child -- went to the then New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael.

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