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'Fela' needed more Felas

WHY does “Fela!” have two leads on Broadway when it had one off? Chalk it up to two more shows a week. Or maybe, as Kevin Mambo puts it, “Fela’s spirit takes up so much room, it takes two guys to play him!” Oddly enough, the former “Guiding Light” star, ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bill T. Jones

Holiday windows 2.0

It was only a matter of time before Windows met windows. And that time has come — the holiday displays have gone high-tech. Look no further than the LED “ribbon” ’round Cartier and the digitally enhanced windows all around town. Even in dark times — ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twinkle (musician),  Cartier,  Lewis Carroll,  Alexander McQueen,  George Clooney

Leonardo comes to life

Mechanical lions and soldiers and bats — oh my! Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for all that and more, but few ever made it out of his sketchbooks. Until now. “Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop,” a new exhibit in Times Square, takes the Renaissance ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Leonardo da Vinci,  Bill Gates

So much more in the restore

You know those great "Antiques Roadshow" moments, when the sketch in the basement turns out to be a van Gogh? The Met had a similar thrill recently, only with a painting by the late Velazquez. The piece in question was a heavily varnished, clumsily ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jonathan Brown

Sex on Center stage

It's quite an eyeful: erotic poems by Emily Dickinson, an essay on "full body orgasms" . . . and detailed drawings of vibrators. No, it's not "The Joy of Sex" you're reading -- it's the Lincoln Center Theater Review. And boy, is it a sizzler! The ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Emily Dickinson,  Lincoln Center Theater,  Horton Foote

Living Dahl

When Lucy Dahl was little, her father would take her and her sister Ophelia for a nighttime walk in the woods. Then they’d wait by the beech trees, beside a big hole. “That’s where Mr. and Mrs. Fox live,” Roald Dahl would say. Or, at another hole: “Let’ ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Roald Dahl,  George Clooney,  Wes Anderson,  Patricia Neal,  Quentin Blake

Self-made Man Ray

He was a painter and fashion photogra pher, writer and innovator, a maker of films and "objects." In fact, Man Ray (1890-1976) was a regular Renaissance man of the French avant-garde. Which is pretty cool, considering he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky, ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Man Ray,  Jewish Museum,  Alexander Calder,  Marcel Duchamp,  Gertrude Stein

Tales from the closet

It’S the total chick show: no big sets, no swordplay . . . no James Gandolfini. What “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” does have — besides a script by sisters Nora and Delia Ephron — are five women talking: about the indignity of training bras, the futile ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: James Gandolfini,  Delia Ephron,  Ilene Beckerman,  Neil Simon,  Regis Philbin

Austen's powers get a doting tribute

It is a truth universally acknowledged that many people in possession of a working brain must adore Jane Austen. Not only that, but we want any little scrap of insight we can get from the gal who gave us "Pride and Prejudice," "Emma" and more. Clearly, ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN, New York Post,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jane Austen,  Fran Lebowitz,  Cornel West

Monster hits!

Before the first trick-or-treater arrives — and long after you’ve scraped the last candy corn off your shoes — you can catch that Halloween spirit. And you don’t have to leave your couch! Here are half a dozen books guaranteed to give any guy and ghoul ...

From BARBARA HOFFMAN AND BILLY HELLER, New York Post,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Virginia Woolf,  Nelly,  Harry Potter

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