Mr. Whitlock wrote the words for that song and the chart-topping “Take My Breath Away,” central elements in the success of the hit 1986 movie.
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Read moreA veteran downtown choreographer known for his deft involvement of the audience — the playwright Young Jean Lee once called him “the expert in that field” — Moss builds slowly to the...
Read moreFilm directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...
Read moreThe music is also an amalgam, taking in the influence of Jewish cantillation, traditional choral styles, gospel, mariachi, pop, blues and 12-tone music. (It shares its eclecticism with the 1971 “Mass” by...
Read moreThis article contains spoilers for the film “The Quiet Girl.”For the first 55 minutes of “The Quiet Girl,” the film’s audience does not know why the titular child has been sent to...
Read more“You should be screaming out and ringing/like the alarm that you ignore,” Franklin J. Fisher declaims in “Irreversible Damage” on “Shook,” the explosive fourth album by his band, Algiers.Portents of apocalypse and...
Read moreThe Obie Awards, back on track after a lengthy pandemic hiatus, are naming “English,” an acclaimed comedic drama set in an Iranian test-prep classroom, the best new American play staged Off Broadway...
Read moreI am willing to bet that this new U.S. Girls song is the first in the history of popular music to be written from the perspective of a tuxedo. (Seriously: “I was...
Read moreThe greatest joke of this blood-spattered horror-comedy from Elizabeth Banks is that it exists.
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