Verdi: Requiem – ‘Dies Irae’
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee occasionally expressed exasperation at being forever identified as the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “The play,” he wrote in a programme note to the 1996 Almeida production, “has hung about my neck like a shining medal of some sort.”
Albee’s protective attitude to his play stemmed in part, I suspect, from the fact that it is widely misunderstood. The searing Mike Nichols 1966 film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, stamped it in the public mind as a liquor-fuelled marital slugfest. But the play, I am convinced, is as much about the state of the Union as about marriage.
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Robin Williams and Steve Martin in Waiting for Godot
La Bohème – Puccini – Sonya Yoncheva
5 Inspirational Quotations From Tom Hanks
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
…The sharp terror of a loss of confidence in ourselves…you think, How did I get here and how am I going to continue this and when are they going to discover I am, in fact, a fraud and take everything away from me? It’s a high wire act that we all walk…If I can’t do it then that means I am going to have to fake it…
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
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What It’s Like To Win An Emmy
You’re in the audience suffering through the show. Finally it’s your category. You wake up. The envelope is ripped open, your name is read, you can’t believe it, and you race up to the stage. You stand at the podium.
What’s going through your mind at a monumental moment like this? For me, honestly, I thought of all the assholes I went through basic training with in the army who thought I was such a fuck up. I was hoping they were watching and having heart attacks from shock. I was also aware that everyone in the audience was glaring at me. I saw the red light of the camera, knew that yes, this was my one big moment on national television. But I also knew that if I didn’t get the hell off quick – I mean REAL quick — millions of people I didn’t know were going to hate my guts.
So I rushed through my prepared speech, thanked my wife, son, and I think Drill Sgt. Miller then was led off. Backstage, you take photos with your presenters.
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JOHAN BOTHA : In Memoriam – Nessun dorma, Turandot