| Look who's looking shifty now
My old colleague Denis Thorpe, the photographer, can be heard dozens of times a day describing how he heard of Lowry's death in 1976 and went round to his house. He was horrified to see people emptying it and loading paintings into a van, so he went inside and took some wonderful photographs of the rooms and the artworks on the wall, capturing a life almost at the moment it disappeared. Another Guardian photographer was Bob Smithies, who died last year. In the early 1960s, I think, or at least before Lowry became nationally famous, Bob paid one of many visits to his house in Salford to picture him at work. Once, Lowry said how grateful he was for the publicity over the years - as a thank-you, would Bob like to choose any two paintings from the walls for just £50? That was a lot in those days, but Bob and his wife loved the paintings, so they swallowed hard and bought them.
In theaters now
For more information on the movie, visit filmmovement.com. Oxford Film Festival: Sponsored by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, the 5th annual festival continues today through Sunday, with close to 100 regional, national and international narrative features, documentaries, shorts, children's films and music videos at Malco's Oxford Studio Cinema on Jackson Avenue, near the University of Mississippi campus, and workshops at various locations. Memphis films on the schedule include "The Importance of Being Russell" (10 p.m. today) and "Nobody" (4:40 p.m. Saturday). Admission: $10 per day. For a complete schedule, visit oxfordfilmfestival.com. Roving Mars: The in-depth IMAX adventure follows the "careers" of Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's robotic Exploration Rovers, from their development to their manufacture to their six-month, 10,000-mile-per-hour flight through cold space to their landing and deployment on the surface of Mars, where they searched for evidence of past and present life and gathered information to help pave the way for future visits by man.
Red tide advisory lifted for beaches in Martin County
The Martin County Health Department has lifted the red tide health advisory for Martin County beaches. For the past two weeks, the microorganism that causes red tide has not been detected in water samples collected by the health department and no respiratory complaints associated with red tide have been reported. The public may obtain more information on ongoing red tide events from the Florida Marine Research Institute by going to http://research.mvfwc.com/. The public may also call the Aquatic Toxins toll free hotline at (888) 232-8635. From staff reports .
Soldier on, Huckabee
Though the Cold War has been over for a generation, McCain has become more bellicose. He warns us new wars are coming, demands the ouster of Vladimir Putin from the G-8 and threatens Iran. Huckabee has a chance to do himself a world of good by piling up votes and delegates and making himself a conservative alternative to McCain. But he also has a chance to serve his party and country by putting on the table the issues that neither party is addressing. ©2008 Creators Syndicate Inc. .
Energized PNB brilliantly dances an inventive 'Romeo'
Usually a character part, Friar Laurence is now central. It is he who accidentally sets the course of the double suicide in motion, so the entire story becomes an agonizing flashback to him, as he comes and goes throughout various scenes. There may be no Lord Capulet -- also no Lord and Lady Montague or Prince of Verona -- but there is a lot of Lady Capulet, whose sexual desire for Tybalt is expressed early on, rather than just at his death. She even admires Paris, who seeks Juliet's hand. The Nurse, Juliet's friend and confidant, is comic but not stupid. Always a commanding figure, Mercutio becomes strikingly aggressive, someone begging for a fight. Tybalt is drawn as a figure of sexual and physical dominance. After the innovations of Serge Diaghilev, dance companies became notoriously hostile to design concepts in full-length story ballets that were not rooted in some kind of period style.
Your prostate needn't be a problem
.shilink {font: 11px Arial; color: #FFFFFF; background: #EA0001} .shilink a:link {font: 11px Arial; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} .shilink a:visited {font: 11px Arial; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} .shilink a:hover {font: 11px Arial; color: #B50507; text-decoration: underline} .toppics {font: 11px Verdana; color: #000000} .toppics a:link {font: 11px Verdana; color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .toppics a:visited {font: 11px Verdana; color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .toppics a:hover {font: 11px Verdana; color: #000000; text-decoration: underline} Advertisement .
|
