“His deceptively artless comedy, usually based on his role as ‘The Gump’, a downtrodden, sad faced little man in a battered cap and a deplorably ill-fitting suit, concealed immense technical skill, superb comic timing, and a sharp business mind.”
Tag: 10.05.10
Heavy Metal at the NY Phil: Percussionists Dumpster-Dive for Instruments
Magnus Lindberg, the New York Philharmonic’s composer-in-residence, led the orchestra’s percussionists to “a junkyard in Staten Island in a search for pieces of metal to play this week at performances of Mr. Lindberg’s Kraft.”
Kazakhstan’s (Very Odd) Payback for Borat
“Coming soon to theaters near you (all right, mostly Kazakh ones): My Brother, Borat, a film that seeks to portray today’s Kazakhstan with some curious narrative devices. Like an amorous donkey. Which somehow has its way with Borat’s loopy brother. Who then gets pregnant. And the two get married.”
Why We All Think of Our Indiscretions as ‘Youthful’
“In piecing together a life story, the mind nudges moral lapses back in time and shunts good deeds forward, these new studies suggest – creating, in effect, a doctored autobiography.”