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April 7, 2008

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy rate high on the ‘net!

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Times changing for film critics
Younger generation shuns print for web
By ANNE THOMPSON, Variety

For a generation of film lovers weaned on Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert, imagining a world where moviegoers make their pic choices without the help of film critics is nearly unthinkable.

Fact is, that world is already here.

My USC film criticism students — who are film-obsessed and hardly representative of their non-cinephile peers — can’t name a working critic other than Ebert, and that’s thanks to his TV fame.
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Gone are the halcyon years when Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael inspired debate. Today, no critics dominate cultural discourse the way they did during the ’70s and ’80s. New York Times critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis have built passionate followings, and will likely become even more powerful as the NYT moves into the void left by newspapers that see no option but to cut back on their cultural coverage.

And while newspaper attrition continues, criticism both amateur and pro proliferates on the Web, aggregated by the inclusive Rotten Tomatoes and the choosier Metacritic.

“I used to think what I did ended up as fish wrap,” says Rickey. “But online movie reviews live in perpetuity.” Three months ago, she received a rush of mail about her 2005 review of “Brokeback Mountain.” A feature on the centenary of Jeanette MacDonald yielded more than 200 emails, including college students comparing Ernst Lubitsch and Nelson Eddy. “That piece was sent all over the Internet,” she explains, “all over the world. The Internet has made reviews not fish wrap anymore.”

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April 7, 2008

Maude Maggart sings in NYC thru May 10…compared to Jeanette MacDonald

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Isn’t She Romantic? Well, She Is and She Isn’t

By STEPHEN HOLDEN in The New York Times, Published: April 4, 2008

When Maude Maggart sings the Rodgers and Hart standard “Isn’t It Romantic?” in an ethereal voice with a supernatural glow, a song of blissful expectation transforms into a ghostly cry of loneliness. Because her voice suggests Jeanette MacDonald, who sang it in the movies, you have a sense of cultural multiple exposure: old Hollywood filtered through post-Woodstock folk-pop via Kate Bush. It is complicated and enthralling…

Maude Maggart continues through May 10 at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan; (212) 419-9331, algonquinhotel.com.

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April 7, 2008

Organ rolls from “Monte Carlo” and “The Love Parade”

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Historical recordings of Jesse Crawford when organ rolls were still in style – before the Talkies killed the days of live organ music accompanying silent films!

Listen to “Beyond the Blue Horizon” here … and “The Love Parade” medley here!

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