Author Archives: classiq
September Newsletter: Rattle That Lock, Westerns Music and Writing on Paper
In the September newsletter: Rattle That Lock, Western soundtracks and writing on paper. Read More
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“She’s the Beast in the Jungle”: Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
“Shiny blacks, animal prints, and wildly overgrown garden foliage for Mrs. Robinson’s lair.” She’s the beast in the jungle. Anne Bancroft’s multi-layered performance as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate reveals not only a tawdry seductress with a scheming exterior when dressed in animal print, but a vulnerable middle aged housewife when she is stripped of her clothes. Read More
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Bill Phelps: VISITOR at Robin Rice Gallery
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps’ fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery, VISITOR, inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his greatest companions, in images that breathe in their own atmosphere. Read More
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Read instead…in Print
“It’s only when rehearsals start, and the characters begin to be people, that I see what’s happening and what has to be made stronger. That’s when I begin to have my ideas.” Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris. Read instead…in print Read More
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Dressing Character in John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven
There was something inherently modern about Steve McQueen even when he played a character in a classic western. He is restless in John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven, always fidgeting, the perfect counterpart to Yul Brynner’s quietude. Dressing character in Read More
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