Although crippled by mental illness throughout much of his career, Beach Boys’ lead singer/songwriter Brian Wilson was not diagnosed as schizophrenic. Yet in the musical biopic, Love & Mercy, opening locally this weekend, he is portrayed by two very different actors — Paul Dano as the unstable, volatile Wilson in the 1960s and John Cusack as the later, near-catatonic Wilson in … [Read more...]
Complexions Ballet astonishes at Duncan show
A chance TV viewing of One Last Dance (2003, Patrick Swazye) alerted me to Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Of the film’s extraordinary dance cast, Desmond Richardson’s exceptional segments burned Complexions into my brain. It has taken a long wait to get the troupe to West Palm Beach for anything more than just tantalizing one work on a festival program. But the 15-year-old … [Read more...]