Adam Fischer

King Vidor retrospective at Berlinale is a hit with film buffs

Marion Davies mugs for the camera, flirts with her sister's boyfriend and spouts old clunkers of American folk wisdom -- "Always remember -- nature gives us many of our features, but she lets us pick our own teeth" -- in the 1928 silent comedy "The Patsy". You can find it on YouTube, but in a…Read more King Vidor retrospective at Berlinale is a hit with film buffs

Is the Budapest “Ring” Going Up in Flames?

BUDAPEST - Swedish soprano Irene Theorin was beaming backstage after she'd burned down the Valhalla home of the gods at the end of Wagner's "Gotterdammerung", and brought some five hours of singing over three nights in Budapest to a glorious conclusion. "I've now done this brilliant part many times but never in my life in…Read more Is the Budapest “Ring” Going Up in Flames?