SERENADES (MOJGAN KHADEM, 2001) WAS FIRST PRESENTED AT THE PERTH FESTIVAL IN JANUARY 2001, THEN AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL; OUTSIDE OF THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT, IT HAS HAD LIMITED RELEASE. MANY REVIEWERS HAVE BEEN LESS THAN GENEROUS IN THEIR ANALYSIS OF THIS AUSTRALIAN FILM....

SERENADE * Timothy Seelig, cond; Turtle Creek Chorale * REFERENCE 110 (66:09 *) HELMUTH Everyone Sang. How sweet the moonlight JENKINS Adiemus. PAULUS Loving-kindness. LAURIDSEN Dirait-on. O magnum mysterium. RUTTER Choral Fanfare. SCHUBERT Ständchen, D 967. JANÃCEK True love. PALADILHE Psyché. BRAHMS Abendständchen....

The bullets from Seung-Hui Cho's gun slammed into Hilary Strollo's abdomen, head and buttocks. For four days, a cluster of tubes has run through her neck as she waits in a hospital for her body to heal.But the pain could not keep the smile off...

Bryan Adams introduced the new Audi TTS with a song on Sunday at the North American International Auto Show.Strumming an acoustic guitar, he sang "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You" as the luxury carmaker marked 10 years since its TT sports...

In Cain's best fiction, aesthetic distance is achieved and sustained partly because of his obsessively objective, neutral, dispassionate attitude toward the basic elements of his novels. His techniques forcibly, deliberately, and continually turn us back to the pure experience itself. (p. 61) [In Serenade] Cain shows how one man seizes the American dream of success and how it conflicts with his dream of the primitive woman. (p. 63)

Mr. James M. Cain rings twice. This time it is with a story called "Serenade," one that will give the I-couldn't-put-it-downers and the stayers-up-into-the-wee-hours and the hair-turning-white-over-night industry something to do. Critical readers who want to know whether "Serenade" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice" are art will have to dope it out for themselves…. "Serenade" whizzes by too fast for any such judgment and yet it leaves t...