Ann Lemons Pollack
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Beehive The 60s Musical
When the '60s arrived, I was a grown man with an interesting job, a house, a wife, two very small children and the personal security that came with surviving having been on strike for more than three months. I had strong musical interests, but they did not include piping girl voices, even if they were
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Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Webb sure doesn't sing very well, but he writes good songs and tells great stories, and puts an awful lot of energy into his cabaret performance, which opened a three-night run last night at the Kranzberg Arts Center. He'll be back on stage Friday and Saturday, hitting many high spots on his nearly half-century
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Coming out of prison after serving 12 years for murder can be a disorienting experience, but Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) shot a man as a hired killer, not as an emotional revenge-seeker, a robber, or someone in a passionate argument. That makes it both easier and more difficult for him to return to a normal life,
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Limitless
In a world where "mind over matter" has fallen far behind its reverse rival in the way things work, it's a great pleasure to see "Limitless," a movie where suspension of disbelief is a very difficult task but one worth striving for. Its success brings an almost-overwhelming sense of power and pleasure in succumbing to
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Diner’s Delight
Always happy to visit a new restaurant, we dropped by Diner's Delight, and wrote about it for St. Louis Magazine.We suspect more folks will be using Compton now that the Grand Avenue viaduct is closed, so keep your eye open for it, just south of Chouteau.
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Cardwell’s at the Plaza
Most of us don’t think of Cardwell’s at the Plaza in terms of snacking, but after a movie at the other end of the mall, it’s a real no-brainer for first-rate food and drink. Warning: Early in the week, which is their term, the kitchen closes at 9 p.m., or so the hostess told us
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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
How does one write–for a St. Louis audience–about an interesting, unusual play that deals with sexual arousal among men and women of the late 19th century? Very carefully, I would say. And yet. . . . Sarah Ruhl's often-funny, sometimes-enlightening play, "In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play," opened last night at the Rep
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Even the Rain
Like a set of those nesting Russian dolls, "Even the Rain" has a film within a film within a film within a film, a nod to Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night," a political statement, a social polemic and a revisionist view of Christopher Columbus, all in an hour and 44 minutes. It opens today on
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Battle: Los Angeles
The Marines win again. Could there have been any other possible outcome? Well, at least they won in Los Angeles, shown at maximum explosive volume in “Battle: Los Angeles,” which opens here today. All we know for sure is that they defeated a bunch of invading aliens in one city, though TV reporters keep interrupting