Brasher played a key role in the historic sub-four-minute mile at Oxford in 1954.
The life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, has been examined and critiqued aplenty, but rarely so entertainingly as in "Amazons and Their Men," a brash play by Jordan Harrison receiving a lively production by Clubbed Thumb at the Ohio Theater.
And at times it was scintillating, as when she made an especially brash play or picked up her phone, brushing aside her Vidal Sassoon blowout, to say, "Hellohoneyhowareyou.... .. "I'll send you JPEGs!" she yelled to Rachel Zoe (stylist to Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Garner), who had been avoiding her entreaties to see Kwiat.
He has a brash, strong sound, playing the way only people in their 20's can play.
The music was swaggering, agitated and elegiac by turns, Mr. Bang's playing brash, folksy and reminiscent at times of Vietnamese string sounds.
He's from Houston; he has a brash, strong sound, playing the way only people in their 20's can play.
Up to and including her role in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," for which she won her second Best Actress award, McDormand has made a career playing brash, unconventional, rough-hewn women.
For someone known for playing brash characters in films like "Do the Right Thing" and "White Men Can't Jump," Perez made a surprisingly muted debut.
Jennifer Lawrence, playing with brash energy and an almost preternatural confidence, will win.
The songbook is by turns touching, humorous, playing and brash, and captures a sense of the city's expansiveness and variety.
