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Keeper Of The Flame |
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George Robinson
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Marilyn Michaels can barely remember a time she wasn’t performing in public.
“In the past five years — in therapy — I realized I was one of those little prodigy-type persons,” she says with a warm laugh. “I was performing when I was 4 years old.”
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Role Of A Lifetime
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Real life and theater collide in ‘Le Grand Role,’ but not quite absurdly enough. |
George Robinson
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The idea that there is a thin line between real life and theater is central to the work of many great filmmakers — Jean Renoir, Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor all come to mind. In his second feature, French director Steve Suissa tries mightily to slip into this august company with a film that plays that dichotomy for pleasant, if slightly queasy laughs. more...
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Unlocking Emotions
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Nicole Krauss’ novel-within-a-novel centers on retired locksmith who loses his first love and manuscript. |
Sandee Brawarsky
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‘T he History of Love” is the name of a book within Nicole Krauss’ remarkable new novel of the same name, “The History of Love” (Norton). The inner novel has had a life of its own, written in Yiddish in Poland and thought to be lost, translated into Spanish in Buenos Aires, unbeknownst to the author, and later into English in New York; it drew on real love and also inspired love, fired up lives. more...
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