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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WILD ABOUT HARRY | 24 Now 46, Harry Connick Jr. is again tackling new territory—and a sensitive territory it is, with the making of his new CD, “Every Man Should Know.” This stands as the first album of all-original Connick songs, and the first ever he has written that tell of the real man, his emotions and his vulnerabilities. He does it with a stellar group of songs that explore almost every style of music there is, including jazz, Latin, country, gospel and funk. It is impossible not to hear how deeply he is feeling about what he is singing. Why is he opening up now?
DAVID IVES | 26 A play about an audition for a play in which the text comes from a book that came from another book, each with increasingly twisted takes on sexuality and sensuality: that’s the darkly comic and keenly beguiling “Venus in Fur” from playwright David Ives. Ives’ works are dexterous in their language, quirky in their invention, as well as furiously and caustically humorous. So where then, in his opinion, does caustic humor
Everett Shinn, 1907. Gertrude Käsebier, 1852–1934 Platinum print, 8 x 6 1/2 in. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
stand in 2013? Can writers of humor only really get away with political incorrectness in the theater? Was his move toward the theater as a full-time career one of prescience?
10 COLUMNS City Beat | 5
Bad Movie | 18 Greenberg
Backstage | 5
Reel News | 20
Sally Friedman | 30
Starlet; The Last Ride; Side Effects;
About Life | 31
Brooklyn Castle
Jazz Library | 41 Stephane Grappelli
FOOD Jake’s | 42 The National Hotel | 44
Film Roundup | 22
OPINION A Mission on Climate Change | 6
A THOUSAND WORDS Mindset | 7
Shadow Dancer; Triumph of the Wall;
ETCETERA
Frances Ha; The English Teacher
L.A. Times Crossword | 46
MUSIC
Agenda | 47
The Jazz Scene | 34
EXHIBITIONS | 8
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), Eldorado: Aristide Bruant, 1892, color lithograph. From the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece.
Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical
Atelier Dualis
Album; Eternal Echoes: Songs and
James A. Michener Art Museum
Dances for the Soul Nick’s Picks | 36
ART Gertrude Kasebier and The Eight | 9 Toulouse-Lautrec | 10
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Classical Notebook | 35
The Quiet Life Gallery
Noah Haidu; Keith Jarrett; Pascal Le Boeuf; Le Boeuf Brothers; Joe Locke; Stan Killian; Bob James & David Sanborn
STAGE Regional Theater & Dance | 14 Crazy for You; Oklahoma!; 39 Steps; Venus in Fur; The Addams Family
Keresman on Disc | 38 Bobby Whitlock; Chris Darrow; “The Best of Ripsaw Records Vol. 3; The Breakup Society; Frank Wess
FILM
Scene from The Iceman.
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Singer / Songwriter | 40
Cinematters | 15 The Kings of Summer
The McCrary Sisters; Shuggie Otis;
Keresman on Film | 16 The Iceman
The Duke Robillard Band;
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Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes; John Mellencamp & Assorted Artists
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ON THE COVER: Harry Connick Jr. Page 24.