Robert Carlyle, of \”The Full Monty\” and \”Angela\’s Ashes\” fame, gives a striking performance in the title role of the CBS miniseries \”Hitler: The Rise of Evil.\”
When Boris Eifman\’s ballet, \”Tchaikovsky: The Mystery of Life and Death,\” premiered in Moscow in 1993, angry picketers surrounded the concert hall.
\”The Last Dance\” began when Bank, an acclaimed PBS filmmaker whose work often involves Jewish themes, attended a Pilobolus performance in summer 1998.
On a bitterly cold day in February 2001, actor Adrien Brody struggled to scramble over a wall into a nightmarish moonscape of a destroyed city.
Dr. Gordon and Hannareta Fishman fell for Newport Beach in 1956 while he served as a medical intern in Long Beach. The couple even considered putting down roots until they inspected a local phone book. But their hope turned to disappointment and shock at finding three other opthomalogists already listed in Corona del Mar.
These guys\’ names may not sound familiar, but chances are they\’ve made you laugh. Jim Gaffigan is probably best known for his role on \”The Ellen Show,\” and John Pinette\’s stand-up routine about the Chinese buffet has practically become a classic.
Oded Fehr\’s shining moment came when an Arab recently unrolled his car window and shouted, \”You make us Middle Easterners proud!\”\n\nHe was referring to the Israeli actor\’s performance as dashing desert warrior Ardeth Bay, Brendan Fraser\’s Mummy-busting partner in \”The Mummy\” and \”The Mummy Returns.\” \”Given the political situation, that was the nicest compliment I could get,\” says the star of the new NBC drama \”UC: Undercover,\” who was voted \”Sexiest Import\” by People in 1999. \”Arabs have been unfairly typecast as terrorists, and I was proud to play one who was heroic.\”\n\n
I have been thinking about \”performance\” for about two weeks now — its virtues, its limitations, its prevalence even when unintended.
What is going on at the LA County Museum of Art? The museum\’s new Institute for Art and Cultures, which convenes painters, poets, artists and performers, writers and thinkers to \”address critical issues in the visual arts and culture through rigorous and playful discussions, performances and debates,\” has landed in our midst and overnight become a central presence. The Institute also happens to be reminding the rest of us that LA Culture exits.
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