Here’s my FT review of the new Kander & Ebb musical, “The Scottsboro Boys.” There’s already talk of the show transferring to Broadway, but the reviews today, though they included some very positive ones, weren’t universal raves. Plus, the thing has no big names to help sell it Read more »
Kristen “Twilight” Stewart as Joan Jett? Hell, yes. This biopic, to be released next month, captures the spirit of ’70s rebel rock as well as anything I’ve seen. And the sight of Dakota Fanning all gwowed up and rocking out is, well, a far cry from her in “Charlotte’s Web.”
I’m starting to lose my patience with “Modern Family,” the endlessly hyped Wednesday-night comedy on ABC. Last night, Judy Greer (pictured right with Ty Burrell) showed up as Phil’s ex-girlfriend, Denise. She wants “a slice of him.” Like all the situations in the show, we’re supposed to find the tonal oddness of the mockumentary acting sufficient to make us laugh, rather than finding any humor in the dialogue (there isn’t any). No thanks.
The clever Fred Landau has come up with a new Broadway parody, this one about the fact that in the new revival of “Promises, Promises” Kristin Chenoweth only has two songs. (Sean Hayes, newly “out,” has more.)
The 42-year-old Toni Braxton just released the cover art for her upcoming album Pulse and she is looking as if she found the fountain of youth. Toni’s song “Caught” features Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique… Good thing she got her before the prices went up! The video features more shirtless hunks than an Abercrombie campaign.
The New York Times suggest that Caravaggio has dethroned Michelangelo as the hottest Old Master Italian painter. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports on a team of scientists who have been exhuming remains they believe are Caravaggio’s in hopes of performing a belated autopsy.
The elusive ’solar corona’ – a plasma gas atmosphere around the sun where temperatures reach two million degrees – visible only during a total eclipse, has been captured on camera. The pictures were taken during an eclipse over the isolated Marshall Islands, near Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.
