Critical Essay by John Mellors
The Storyteller lurches along like a pubcrawler, tanking up here, spewing up there, and eventually falling flat on his face. The style does not help. Sillitoe is a garr...
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Critical Essay by Alan Brownjohn
Sillitoe's later work has often explored [the contradiction] of a developed, indignant, and compassionate social sense [combined] with a strong urge to push ou...
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Critical Essay by Mary Cantwell
Mr. Sillitoe's idea [in "The Storyteller"] is promising, but his explication is ponderous. For an artist to write about the anguish of being an ar...
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Critical Essay by Julian Moynahan
The Storyteller is something of a disappointment. Its main drawback is that it is much too tightly wound upon the armature of its narrative premise. Purporting to be...
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>Name: DJ J. Period
>Hometown: L.A., Ca, but reps BK to the fullest!
>Pro Stats: J.Period has tapped the storytelling potential of mixtapes by collaborating with A-List artists such as...
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Checks from Hollywood's A-list stars such as George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Barbra Streisand added up to a one-night take of $1.3 million for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.Obama ...
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An ancient battle. A little-known director. An R rating. No major movie stars.These are the unlikely ingredients of the weekend's top-grossing film, "300." It earned almost $71 million, making it t...
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"The Lord of the Rings," the most expensive production in West End history, opened to a standing ovation from its audience, and mixed reviews from the critics, with some praising it as brilliant an...
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No sexy Inga, no green monster — and what is most important, no $450 seats."Frankenstein," a new musical now on view at 37 Arts, does have a last name in common with Mel Brooks' Broadway vers...
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f--- up another dinner party, I said I'd report on a party last weekend, and my continuing effort to socialize myself. Herewith:
I thought I did fine. I didn't seem to make anyone uncomfortable. I...
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Gumshoes have it hard, what with all their warm beer and cold women, felonious friends and faceless foes. But these days, Manhattan P.I.’s have it hardest: There are decades of serious white-...
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When Yo-Yo Ma plays, he likes to tell a story.On Tuesday night, he told the story of Dvorak's Cello Concerto _ on his 1733 Montagnana. His song without words was performed on a flower-decked stage ...
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"Notes from the Underbelly" is the very picture of the modern broadcast comedy.Eschews laugh track? Check. Shot with a single camera instead of the classic three-camera "I Love Lucy" approach? Chec...
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Imagine: You turn on the TV and see a campaign ad. Your neighbor down the hall, watching the same channel at the same moment, sees a different ad selected for her in part because she's Hispanic, si...
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Critical Essay by John Mellors
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