At the Vienna Opera Ball on February 15, 2007, a hilarious contrast between the alpha and omega of contemporary standards of beauty.
Anna Netrebko , the classiest and most beautiful opera singer working today (and she looks good too!), performs from Act III of Massenet’s Manon. Note the bored occupant of the left side of the VIP box, about fifteen seconds from the end of the video. Je suis toujours tout étourdie, indeed.
Courtesy of Parterre Box .
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Post Date: 2008-05-23 12:02:45
Click on the “more” button for a free utility to clean your computer monitor … from the inside. Another public service from the non-blog.
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Post Date: 2008-05-20 15:51:40
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I love this guy.
Change is in the air this political season — in the ever-increasing likelihood that an African American will stand as the Democratic nominee for the presidency, and in the near-certainty that Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Senate’s liberal lion, soon will exit the institution he has bestrode like a colossus for nearly 50 years.
Just as Barack Obama’s primary victories remind us ...
more Moshpitting at the MetFrom: maxzook.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-04-27 19:51:31
From the Vienna Staatsoper production of Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment , Juan Diego Flórez sings “Pour me rapprocher de Marie”.
For the last two years, the Metropolitan Opera has been offering HD broadcasts of some of its Saturday matinees in movie theaters, and I’m kicking myself that it’s taken me this long to check it out. I certainly chose a good way to start (but then again, my first three live Met performances were Leonie Rysa...
more Equity wins silver in HoustonFrom: maxzook.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-04-22 11:04:22
Above: Marie Dressler (foreground) and chorus girls from the Ziegfeld Follies picketing on Broadway, 1919.
My original screenplay Equity has been awarded a Silver Remi for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival .
I realized a long time ago that choosing a personal favorite from among my screenplays is like choosing which of your children you like best. Equity was the first script I seriously attempted to finish, and it had th...
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