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Escaping to La La Land, Then and Now
The success of \"La La Land\" at the box office, its (generally positive) reviews and its domination of the awards season, with seven Golden Globes and 14 Oscar nominations, including best director, best picture and best leading actor and actress, has prompted speculation that a revival of the genre is in store. Narrating a dance scene for The Times, Mr. Chazelle contended that one of the things he loved about a lot of old musicals was \"this idea that falling in love could be a very natural thing, and I say 'natural' -- obviously, it's a little ironic, because it's within the context of these very unnatural musical numbers. If I understand correctly, audiences today would have a hard time believing in men and women who burst into song and dance because that's not what people do in their everyday lives -- it's not \"realistic.\" Not even \"La La Land,\" with its dogged adherence to plausibility, can resist the magic of C.G.I., which enables Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, the film's lovers, to fly into the nighttime sky and dance among the twinkling constellations. If Mr. Chazelle and Ms. Moore's concerns are correct, then we've reached a point where our tolerance for fantasy in film can accommodate intergalactic warriors and inhabitants of Middle-earth -- or a couple waltzing across the sky -- but not people who sing and dance better than we can. If the dance numbers in \"La La Land\" fail charming film, if not an exhilarating one, and...
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Escaping to La La Land, Then and Now
“La La Land” brings movie musicals into the 21st century with a reality check.
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A most American experience
\"India! For how long?\" he asked. Four weeks. \"But you're not going to have a good meal for a month,\" he protested. There are, of course, good restaurants in India, but they weren't on the itinerary, and in any case, I wasn't going for the food. The next day, 15 minutes before I left for the airport, my buzzer rang: It was a messenger from the Four Seasons delivering a tote bag with two appetizers, two main courses and two desserts in Tupperware containers, and two bottles of wine -- a picnic my traveling companion and I unpacked on our flight that evening, unfolding our tiny tray tables in the next to last row of economy. Mr. [Aby Rosen] has engaged Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick -- the team behind Carbone and Dirty French, both wildly successful downtown restaurants -- to take over the space. In an interview with this newspaper, Mr. Carbone, one of the chefs, said he had been researching old Four Seasons menus on file at the New York Public Library with the intention of recreating many of the vintage dishes. \"I'm really just doing the first decade,\" he said. \"I don't know how much interest I have beyond that. I want to be playing in the J.F.K. world.\" So the Four Seasons' unmaking will likewise be quintessentially American. Not even epidemic nostalgia for the '60s could save it. The restaurant where real live admen met for lunch is, it seems, less compelling than the world of Don Draper. Paris's Grand Vefour, now over 200 years old, is still thriving, as is Milan's Sant Ambroeus, founded in 1936. But the Four Seasons, in many ways their New York counterpart, will not survive intact. The new operators will cherry-pick its past and use what they like. Our tolerance for the stuff of history goes only so far. In the end, it's all material.
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A Most American Experience
MY introduction to the Four Seasons restaurant, when I was in my 20s, came courtesy of Alexander Liberman, then the editorial director of the Conde Nast magazines and my boss (though to say he was my boss is like calling Barack Obama the boss...
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A Most American Experience
On return trips to New York, I was struck by all the ways the restaurant seemed to mirror the culture in which it bloomed: the veneration of money and power, on parade in the Grill at lunchtime; the deference with which they welcomed not only the A-list regulars but the pilgrim tourist; the big statement and bold confidence inherent in design that crystallized the country's buoyant mood at the time of its opening, in 1959; the sense of theater implicit in the arrangement of the tables and the vaguely madcap Pool Room, an urban pond.
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