By DANIEL J. WAKIN : Clandestinely — or as clandestinely as you can with Mahler’s huge Symphony No. 2 — an orchestra gathered inside the Park Avenue Armory one day in December for an unusual sound check.
Summoned by George R. Steel, the executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University, the 112 musicians rehearsed […]
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By DAVID M. HALBFINGER : LAS VEGAS — Coming soon, and coming straight at you: houseflies in astronaut suits, Brendan Fraser boldly exploring the earth’s core and an animated, nearly 50-foot-tall she-monster with Reese Witherspoon’s voice.
Energized by impressive profits from the pioneering “Polar Express” (2004) and last year’s “Meet the Robinsons” — not to mention […]
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By BILL CARTER : Lorne Michaels has an answer to the political columns, cartoons and comments that have accused his show, “Saturday Night Live,” of favoring Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton during her primary showdown with Senator Barack Obama: Nope.
“I’m in show business and I never, ever forget that,” Mr. Michaels said in a telephone interview […]
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Critic’s Notebook My Invitation Isn’t in the Mail By CATHY HORYN
GIORGIO ARMANI does not want me at his fashion shows.
In a letter to my editor earlier this month, he cites my “unnecessarily sarcastic comments” about his friends and family in a review of his last couture show and notes that I have “rarely found positive […]
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By ERIC WILSON : THREE tidbits of recent fashion news that may have escaped your attention:
Jil Sander, the modernistic and exorbitantly priced label designed by Raf Simons, is moving downtown to an unglamorous block of Howard Street, off lower Broadway.
Topshop, the British chain that rivals H & M in reprocessing runway fashion for the masses, […]
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