The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Ar… - Terry Teachout
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Ar…
- Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. - Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Cr… - Terry Teachout
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Cr…
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is fi… - Terry Teachout
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is fi…
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me… - Terry Teachout
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me…
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it.… - Terry Teachout
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it.…
EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist. - Terry Teachout
EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published. - Terry Teachout
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of… - Terry Teachout
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…
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