John McClane, Bruce Willis, is back in “Live Free or Die Hard”. The premise is that a disgruntled computer geek, Timothy Olyphant as Thomas Gabriel, is miffed that the government disregarded his advice about the vulnerability of computer systems in the United States. To validate his assertions, rub the authorities nose in it and enrich […]

Hairspray, Baltimore 1962, as I sat down in the theater I momentarily panicked at the remembrance of my last musical, Evita which had no spoken words only songs.  Madonna singing and singing and singing, “There was no toilet paper in the bathroom so I had to use my hand please pass the napkins  da da […]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, they put away the talking hats and nobody cares that the stairs move around.  It’s also less of a children’s story than before.  You’re still talking about adolescent “wizards” but the story is the conflict between good and evil and  sluggish unresponsive bureaucracy.  Harry is tormented and […]