Helene

The point of the title was that Hamilton basically estabished the whole system of banking and finance that we now have (in other words, American capitalism), and he, better than any of his well known contemporaries, understood that the future of the new nation was urban and industrial, not rural and agricultural. To put this in context, while I don't think that Hamilton foresaw the Industrial Revolution, he did understand the necessity of a diverse economy, with manufacturing as a mitigation against the vicissitudes of a farm and small merchant economy, as well as the means to reduce dependence on England, which was still considerable after the Revolution. Given the banking and market system he set up, and his understanding of debt financing, I don't think the subtitle is an exaggeration, regardless of how we feel about the current state of American capitalism.

I have to agree that this book would be a lot for an eight- or nine-year old to handle. It's one thing to see grown-ups having romances on TV or in the movies, but I don't know many children that age who are all that comfortable with teenagers that they know and love -- as opposed to Britney Spears -- dating and snogging and acting downright weird, and the Harry Potter characters are in the category of friends. (Did Pippi Longstocking ever date?) The first books could span the 5 to Harry/Hermione/Ron's own age group, but as Harry and the crew become adolescents, the target is a bit older. Many kids are already aware of the politics and psychology on some level, because children are the cruellest masters. I suspect more have been in Snape's category than they'd care to admit.

Thank you, oberon!

That's terrific news! I hope they'll be able to tour to the West someday.

Okay, I'll take the bait and : What did Boal annouce publicly? (To everyone: if someone does make a public announcement or statement, the preamble: [announcer] announced at [where, what event] that) lets the Mods know that it was public.)

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I should have said, "I'm working on getting help." Thanks to a very nice person at invisionzone.com, the titles are back!!!!

HUMOR-IMPAIRED BEANIE ON (not an official beanie) In my opinion, what separates the people who run multi-genre dance studios -- and give a lot of people the opportunity to participate and a great deal of pleasure -- from the Dolly Dinkles is whether the teachers can recognize talented students and are honest with the students and the parents about the level and amount of training the students need to excel at ballet, and steer the talented kids to a "real school." HUMOR-IMPAIRED BEANIE OFF I'm really not trying to kill all the fun out this thread.

I'm working on getting them re-instated.

Everything in pre-performance and post-performance talks is fair game. Many thanks for posting this. And best wishes to Whelan and her future husband.

According to his IMDb.com bio, he was born in 1953. He said that he won't make a movie unless he gets full artisitic control. When in negotiations with Focus Features, which he said was a great distributor, he told them he had a deadline to close, because he had other, European, money that he'd lose if he waited too long. However, he made it clear that he would have made the deal with the European group, if Focus hadn't agreed that the first time they'd see the movie was when it was done. He seemed genuinely surprised when he said Focus lived up to the bargain, and never bothered him throughout the shoot.

I loved Burr as well. I think it's interesting that Jefferson was, for a long time, the FF poster boy, but he's getting his comeuppance in a series of Federalist biographies, as he's portrayed to be rather two-faced and non-committal, as well as an apologist for the excesses of the French Revolution long after the murders and bloodshed were known to him. Not my idea of a fun marriage, but it sounded like she adored him and their children and tried to establish his reputation until the very end. The incompatibility seemed to me less intellectual than temperamental.

From the Washington Post, the news that James Doohan, Scotty of Star Trek fame, died at home this morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5072000929.html I didn't realize he lived in Redmond, WA, just across the lake from Seattle, and keeping with his Pacific Northwest roots. (He was from Vancouver, BC.)

I read Harry Potter 6 this weekend. I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that in the book, more about Voldemort's background is revealed than in the previous books. After a very fine start, I found the book a bit flat as a read, specifically -- and this is a warning to adult readers -- because it really did live up to its nickname of "Snogwarts." But I'm not the target audience for adolescent romance For the first five, if an East Coast friend had called me at midnight with 50 pages to go, I would have said, "Is this an emergency?" "No?" "Gotta go," but instead I spent an hour and a half chatting about the Tour de France before finishing the book, and it wasn't because I wanted to savor it. I think this book at its core would make a really fine opera, though. Rowling has built in enough arias, duets, and revelation scenes to build to a great climax.

It may be The Men in Her Life. Here's the link to the movie from IMDb.com, with the movie synopsis part of the way down the page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033900/ According to a website dedicated to him, Adolph Bolm was the dance director for the movie: http://www.adolphbolm.com/html/Articles/Co.../Schaffer1.html

The Ulanova version was done as a film. I'm not sure if this would help to translate the versions you will see into photos.

Many thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, this made it easy for his contemporaries to dismiss him and to misrepresent his views through the filter of his personality. ("Of course he was a monarchist. He wants to be King, the vain fool...") Is there a better alternative?

I am so sorry -- Klevtsov was the excellent Mercutio, not Romeo. Romeo was Denis Savin. I would see Klevtsov as Spartacus. Thank you for correcting me, rg.

Klevtsov is the young dancer who was cast in the Donnellan/Poklitaru Romeo and Juliet reworking that the Bolshoi brought on tour last year. He was tall and thin, and both his looks and dancing were a little pale in R&J; Romeo was rather passive in this conception. Juliet was the focal point. That doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't have the range to dance Spartacus, but he would have to embody a passionate hero, not a de-clawed, neurotic one, and carry an entire ballet. My impression was that he is a very talented young dancer, but I think it might take a prodigy to pull this off.

I just saw a remarkable movie, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, called Broken Flowers. The premise of the movie is that Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, an aging Don Juan, who receives a cryptic message from someone who claims to be an old girlfriend -- unsigned -- and, through the prodding of his next door neighbor, Winston, travels to visit a handful of them. There are several reasons I found this movie so compelling. It was quietest movie I may ever have seen. There is music on the soundtrack, but it doesn't blare. The noises of everyday life don't sound as if they were produced in a studio. And while Bill Murray is often the stillest of actors, usually it's to be able to make a big joke out of a small facial adjustment, reflecting the behavior of adolescent boy-men characters. In this movie, with rare exception, he faces his discomfort, and doesn't try to joke his way out of it with his face. Even Winston the persistently upbeat neighbor is neither loud comic relief or in-your-face sentimentality. He's just a funny, sweet guy with a bit of a mission, however Quixotic. I really loved this aspect best of all, but as a warning, it might be as interesting to someone else as watching paint dry. If Murray is the center stone in the setting, there are jewels galore: Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, and Tilda Swinton, who play four great roles where not one has to die, become a junkie, commit suicide, or succumb to melodrama. Both Alexis Dziena, as Stone's daughter, and Chloe Sevigny, who plays Lange's assistant, are wonderful in supporting roles. The movie opens in August, and I saw a special screening for members of Seattle Films, the organization that sponsors the annual Seattle International Film Festival. No Trailers! Volume at a Reasonable Level! Jarmusch was on hand to speak and answer questions at the end of the screening. Some notes of interest: In 2000 or 2001 Jarmusch had written another movie for Bill Murray and got financing for it. At the same time, he decided he didn't like the script, and told Murray the idea for Broken Flowers. Murray agreed to the switch, and when the script was ready and financing secured, Murray said that locations had to be within 50 miles of his house, with a shoot of six weeks. Jarmusch said that he was able to find locations within 100 miles of Murray's house, and he shot in seven weeks. The movie was filmed in upstate New York, Westchester, and New Jersey. One of airports did look like Newark, with its monoral. An audience member was able to point out exactly where one of the hotels Murray's character stayed in -- Ft. Lee, right off of Route 4. Jarmusch seemed genuinely amused that someone knew the exact spot. Jarmusch wrote parts with Murray, Jeffrey Wright (who plays Winston), Sharon Stone, and one of the other women in mind. He asked Lange to play the role that Conroy eventually played. He said he doesn't watch TV, and didn't know who Frances Conroy was -- shame, because Conroy alone was worth watching Six Feet Under for -- but she was suggested to him, and after meeting with her, he wanted Conroy for the role that Lange agreed to play. He had to go back to Lange to see if it was okay to switch roles, and Lange said she liked the role she was switching into more! He said he wanted to cast actresses in the 40-55 year old age group, who are often trapped between being too "old" to play the love interest and too young to play mothers and grandmothers. Sandra Oh, in an interview in Bust magazine, said that a casting director friend of hers was told to cast a role in a TV series about a women in her 40's who was dating a younger man. Instead of hiring one of the 45-year-old actresses who came to audition, the Network Guys told her to find "30 to play 45." I'm really glad Jarmusch wanted 45-55 to play 45-55, because the performances are so fine.

I just received OBT's Nutcracker brochure, which features a nearly full side photo of Artur Sultanov and Gavin Larsen, in what I think is the moment at the very end of the Act II pas de deux just after he does the downstage right promenades and lets go of her hand, leaving her balancing in arabesque. Larsen is the poster child for a dead-on balance. There are four smaller photos, one of Karl Vakili in Chinese -- sniff, he retired at the end of last season, one of Spanish, one of an angel, and the last a tableu with Dewdrop and the Flowers. (I can't tell if that's Tracy Taylor and Matthew Boies in Spanish. If so, sniff, sniff, they retired at the end of last season, too.) Performances are: With orchestra ($28-$98): Dec 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 (7:30 pm) Dec 10, 17 (2:00 pm)* December 11, 18 (1:00 pm) December 11, 18 (5:00 pm) *Sugarplum Parties @ $25/person follow these performances (snacks, photos, goodie bags, "Great Fun on stage with the Nutcracker Cast.") Family Discount performances to recorded music ($18-$83) December 19 (7:30 pm) December 24 (1:00 pm) All performances at Keller Auditorium. According to the brochure, tickets went on sale 11 July. People who order by October 17 "get early access to tickets for Swan Lake in June 2006." Phone: 503 222 5538 Toll Free: 888 992 5538 M-F 9am-6pm PDT Ticketmaster: 503 790 ARTS www.ticketmaster.com

I'd just finished the 32+ hours of Hamilton before I started Adams! I loved that biography. Adams has been so much more of a whiner than Hamilton, especially considering how awful Hamilton's childhood was, and how he made himself one of the first self-made immigrant success stories. After Adams, I think I'm going to listen to "Great Russian Short Stories" before I try the Franklin bio.

I've read The Shock of the New at the rate of 2 pages/year for the last 15 years. Sometimes I move the dust bunnies around to get to it. The books I'm really struggling with are The Dancer Defects, and the two Ashton biographies. I've given up on the McCullough John Adams bio and am listening to it as an audiobook during my daily commute. Over 15 hours into it, I understand why I fell asleep on it, although I'm not sure if the cause is the author or if Adams' life just isn't all that interesting when told. (He just became Vice President, and considering that this was one of his most fallow and frustrated periods, I can't imagine this picking up.) I have one shelf in my bookcases where I put "future reading" -- those impulse purchases that by the time they're delivered (internet ordering) or I've finish reading something else (bookstore purchases), I can't understand why on Earth I ever thought I'd want to read them. Things move from the dust bunny pile on the night table to that shelf. When it's full, something has to give and go into the donation box for the Seattle Public Library booksale, a 3-5 year journey.

According to Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, the music for The Leaves Are Fading comes from three pieces: "Cypresses," "String Quartet, Op. 80, and "String Quartet" Op. 77. It doesn't list which segments. When I did an amazon.com search on these pieces, The Op. 80 quartet and "Cypresses" were easy to find individually, but there are several references to a String Quintet that had been known Op.77 and another String Quintet that is now known as Op.77. There were no "Op.77" pieces in any of the complete string quartet recordings. I don't know of any recording of the ballet's cuts only. Perhaps one of our music experts knows of a recording?

Before I moved to Seattle, NYCB did a two week stint -- they were added to the PNB subscription series, which guaranteed at least a partially full house from the start. At the start of the 1994 season, I saw La Fille Mal Gardee performed by the Australian Ballet as part of my PNB subscription. I was expecting to see other companies every few years, but it hasn't happened since. It would be amazing if the Bolshoi could come to Seattle for two weeks, bringing the rep they are bringing to NYC. The University of Washington sponsors a World Dance series, and the Seattle Theater Group has a make your own subscription series from various dance, music, and comedy offerings. In theory, both UW and STG are producing alternatives. The pickings are so slim this year from both, in my opinion, that I've cancelled subscriptions to both, and I've purchased single tickets to all three Mark Morris performances.