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Contributor Favorite | 01/30/2008 11:43 am

What Wows Me:

  • The old theatrical hack in Tom Stoppard’s “Shakespeare in Love." He has to overcome his stutter to introduce the play, and he can’t, and it is opening night and he summons everything within him and suddenly he is speaking the preface to Romeo and Juliet, and he can do it, and now the play begins, and genius enters the world.
  • Angela Lansbury in "Sweeney Todd." She’s singing the lyric, "I’m your friend," to Sweeney and you hear all the desperation of the world in her voice and it fills your heart with love and terror.
  • The opening credits of "The Best Years of Our Lives", where so tenderly they signal, “Something big is coming here.”
  • Joni Mitchell
  • A first rate movie score.
  • A column that punches you in the nose with truth.