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FOR THE RECORD
Perfect Romance (Naxos )
It'sthe perfect soundtrack
for a night of cuddling or
cooing... or consummation.
The 15 tracks , culled from
operas and symphonies by
such composers as Puccini,
Satie, Ravel , Debussy, Liszt
and Chopin , define the art of
romance. It's perfect music
for the perfect love. We'll call
it heartfelt.
The Art of Harry Harryhausen
(Billboard Books , $50)
As Peter Jackson points out
in the introduction to this hefty
tome, it's so important not to
grow up. Even in his 80s, sci-fi
master Harryhausen contin-
ues to conjure the entrancing
magic he first created with
1949's Mighty Joe Young. The
wondrous worlds and mythical
monsters made by this master
of cinematic magic, in the days
of stop-action animation before
computer-generated images
became the norm, are showcased m this lush coffe e table book.
This treasure , with 211 color plates and 74 black-and-white il-
lustrations , contains not a single scene from any of his motion
pictures,but rather storyboards,pencil sketches and oil paintings,
models, masks, puppets , rubber dinosaurs and bronze Cyclops ,
sundry ideas for movies bearing the HH stamp. Even more fas-
cinating are images from movies that Harryhausen wanted to
make but for which he never got financing. Many of the drawings
are so detailed and ornate that the viewer is at once pulled in;
we experience them with the fear and wonder of a child' s limit-
less imagination. Looking at these detailed sketches , it's easy
to believe we are in some pre-Christian religious temple , some
deserted island populated by monstrous things or Anytown,
USA, totally destroyed by evil ugly aliens. Like a child, we simply
wonder at it all.
Chew on This: Everything You
Don 't Want to Know About Fast
Food (Houghton Miff lin , $16)
Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
dig it out - and the tasting ain't so
sweet. Some food for thought: One
out of every five U.S. public schools
serves brand-name fast food. A
single fast-food burger may contain
meat from hundreds , even thou-
sands, of cattle. Americans spend
more on fast food than on movies,
books , magazines , newspapers and
recorded music - combined. Even a
cursory glance through this fascinat-
ing foray into fast food will dethrone
any burger king at sonic speed.
THE WRITE STUFF
Brokeback Mountain
(Universal)
It'sout , it's about and it'sstill
a moving love story.
Unless you broke your back
and have been incommunicado
or living off in the vast wilder-
ness on some mountain , you've
heard much -perhaps too much
-about this film. But Ang Lee's
groundbreaking film , as much
about the restraints of role-play-
ing and societal expectations as
the angst and amore between
two itinerant male ranchers , de-
serves, deserves repeated looks.
Seeing the film on a small(er)
screen works for and against the movie; the haunting sadness
that permeates the tale is a tangible, claustrophobic ache; the
awesome expanse of the outback is reduced to screen-saver
souvenirs. The acting is subtle and superb; we are consistently
drawn to the subtly nuanced performance of Michelle Williams.
She may have lost the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but
her work remains powerfully passionate and potent , an essential
reminder that love - all love - that will never grow old.
The Merv Griffin Show: 40 of the Most Interesting People of Oar Time
(Alpha Home Entertainment )
There 's so much missing from this eight-and-a-half hour ex-
cursion down memory lane - where are Griffin 's legendary chats
with Judy? Bette and Joan? Until he decides to issue Volumes
2, 3, 4 through 19, we'll have to settle
on the choices on these three discs
- interviews with Hollywood legends
(Orson Welles.Ingrid Bergman , Rich-
ard Burton ), funny men (Jack Benny,
George Burns) and women (Totie
Fields, Phyllis Diller). historical icons
(Walter Cronkite, Robert F.Kennedy,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) and cel-
ebrated politicians (Ronnie and Nancy,
Rose Kennedy).No one did it aswell as
Merv. He'd ask. Then he'd listen. Are
you listening. Jay and Conan?
DVD QUICK PICKS
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Diverse imagery abounds
CCMA spring
exhibits offer a wealth
of wonderfu l works
By Briti Beedenbender
arts@barnstablepatnot.com
PHOTO COURTESY OF CCMA
SHADOW DUNE - Michael Rogovsky 's expressive color and vibrant imagery capture dunes at sunset evoking a truly
Cape Cod feel. The painting is part ot the Cape Cod Museum of Art spring exhibitions now being shown at the museum,
which is celebrating its 25" year.
Like the warmth of spring air
and the anticipation of summer
brought on by longer days, the
Cape Cod Museum of Art welcomed
this spring'sexhibitions with a 25'h
Anniversary Reception on Friday,
March 31.
The exhibitions offer the public a
glimpse into the area's rich artistic
heritage and a view of works by
artists who possess great technical
skill, unique vision, exuberance ,
and in many cases a penchant for
complex processes.
The museum has chosen as its
centerpiece an exhibition of works
by renowned American landscape
painter John Joseph Enneking
and his son Joseph Eliot Ennek-
ing, recently donated by the late
Professor Morris Cohen.
An active conservationist , the
elder Enneking 's pieces reveal
an intense love and respect for
the unspoiled natural landscape.
Enneking, a pivotal figure in the
late 19,h and early 20"' century,
was a bridge between the French
Barbizon painters and American
Impressionism. His works captured
the essence of a place and time.
His loose, painterly style, com-
bined with a subtle color palette
became increasingly abstract , ac-
knowledging the modernist move-
ment that was taking hold in the
early years of the 20"' century.
Following this legacy are the
landscapes and coastal views by
Michael Rogovsky. In his hands
the landscape becomes a foil for
the use of expressive and arbitrary
color and its relationship to the
fundamental formswhich comprise
the landscape.
In New York , Cynthia Packard
employs a bold and edgy approach
that has moved her art in a direc-
tion that is at once refreshing and
provocative.
Painting on monumental can-
vases, Packard breaks away from
her more representational still-
lifes and nudes and ventures into
the realm of abstraction. Calling
attention to the textural qualities
of the painted surface , she creates
tension as concrete forms dissolve.
These ethereal forms possess a
dynamic expressiveness created
through slashing brushstrokes ,
thick with oil paint mixed with wax
then torched.
In stark contrast to Packard 's'
loose compositions , the work of
Fielding Brown reveals that an
artist's creativity does not reside
solely in the left side of the brain.
Brown , who holds a Ph.D in Phys-
ics from Princeton University, has
created a series of works in which
science , art , mathematics and
technology merge.
Originating as a set of math-
ematical equations that are plotted
on the computer , Brown transforms
these generated images into three -
dimensional objects using wood ,
metal , and string.
In "Math is the Language of
Space ," Brown creates forms that
are beautiful and seductive. El-
lipses , helixes, and vortexes invite
the eyes to explore both positive
and negative space. A compelling
exhibition , in which the equations
are also on display, it presents the
intellectualization of form and in
spite of its mathematical compo-
nent , its organic result .
The exhibition that seems to
encapsulate element s present in
each of the other exhibitions is
"The Art of Enameling,"acollection
of work by nearly a dozen highly-
creative , innovative and technically
skilled artists. The work on view
is breathtakin g.
Richard McMullen 's exquisit ely
formed pendant "Wings of Acies,"
keeps company with Harlen Butt' s
complex cast and cloisonne vessel
"Grasshopper. " Cynthia Wright' s
sculptural shadow box entitled
"Waves of Blue,"in which interlock-
ing enameled waves of multi-hued
blues surround a vessel of copper
and woven fishing line is a seascape
that finds a counterpart in the
intimate cloisonne landscapes of
Toni Strassler.
The exhibition provides the
viewer with an opport unity to
experience the range of work pos-
sible with enameling and it is both
impressive and stunning.
The Cape Cod Museum of Art is
open Tuesdays - Saturdays 10am
- 5pm . Sundays 12 noon -5pm. and
Thursday evenings till 8:30.
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Show is a humorous
and touching
must-see comed y
By Melora B. North
melora@cape.com
WITTY SECURITY - Sophie
(Jean Bates) and daughter
Barbara explore the wry
side of happiness through
the ages in the memorable
and comedic Social
Security now playing at
the Academy of Performing
Arts in Orleans. The show,
directed by Ray Girardin ,
runs through April 23.
Sometimes we remake ourselves to
accommodate what others expect of
us, what they believe we are, which
we often aren't. In so doing, we gener-
ally lose our true selves along the way,
sabotaging our will and the possibility
of happiness , which is a necessary com-
ponent to make us thrive and enjoy the
moment we live in.
Such is the case of the characters
in Social Security, now playing on the
stage at the Academy of Performing
Arts in Orleans. It's aJove story of sorts
with gentle twists and a hearty dose of
humor, enabling the audience to see
themselves in the roles, at one level or
another, with a grain of salt.
Take an avante garde New York
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