Reflections on a Teaching Career
This is the last week of classes and last week of my full-time employment in academia. I never intentionally aimed to be a teacher. That said, I also never regretted being one.
This is the last week of classes and last week of my full-time employment in academia. I never intentionally aimed to be a teacher. That said, I also never regretted being one.
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Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
The cultural moment where True Grit finds itself as one of America's most popular films is neither surprising nor necessarily of its own making.
Posted 05.25.2011
Stephen Sondheim ain't a Jet or a Shark. In fact, he's not too crazy about his landmark musical, 'West Side Story,' at all. The famed composer/lyrici...
The Los Angeles Times | Charles McNulty | Posted 05.25.2011
When an actor is described as "turbulent" or "difficult," it's typically a euphemism for "a royal pain." Patti LuPone, one of the most celebrated musi...
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
Passion is a depiction of romantic obsession and the subtly destructive ends to which romantic obsession can lead -- all of it outfitted with somber, totally humorless Sondheim songs.
James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011
Stephen Sondheim, the creator of Sweeney Todd and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum joined the ranks of theatrical legends with the naming of a Broadway theatre in his honor.
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's eightieth birthday, his songs are being sung even more this year than they usually are -- which in Manhattan intimate rooms is quite often, to say the least.
Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011
I've always loved great listening. For me, that is the essence of an engaging music podcast. If I can recapture that lost art of listening in these noisy times then I've done my job.
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
America (and the world) has spoken: The less-than-mediocre Alice in Wonderland is a hit. Allow me to disagree. Tim Burton is Exhibit A for my unified theory of movies.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
Their message is unmistakable: Investors, clearly running scared, are convinced the bloodbath is far from over.
David Sterritt | Posted 05.25.2011
What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.
Rolling Stone | Gavin Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011
Today Depp meets me in a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. His jeans are ripped, and his black shirt is open at the neck to reveal a GONZO ne...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapp...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have welcomed their second child, a girl, in London, the actress' representative told a magazine. The star and di...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
To Johnny Depp, freedom means simplicity and anonymity. "I'm sure it will be a possibility someday again. Maybe when I get old. They get tired of yo...
E! Online | Marc Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Sacha Baron Cohen has a thing for showing off his privates. Well, what appear to be his privates, that is. We've already been subjected to Borat dres...
Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night we learned from director Tim Burton that Johnny Depp modeled his "Willy Wonka" hairstyle on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. "He was trying to s...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Johnny Depp says his 8-year-old daughter is now healthy and well following her hospitalization earlier this year. "Now every single millisecond is a ...
Susanne Mentzer | Posted 04.19.2012