The first is Asgardian warrior Valkyrie, leader of the group tasked with bringing worthy warriors to Valhalla.
Any pretext that brings worthy films together is a good thing, and BAM Cinématek has found one with the series "Booed at Cannes," which opens today with one of the greatest movies ever made, Carl Theodor Dreyer's last film, "Gertrud".
— Though the Bel Canto at Caramoor series, directed by the conductor and vocal coach Will Crutchfield, has brought worthy but neglected works to public attention, it has never quite shed the veneer of a resuscitation effort of interest mainly to bel canto buffs.
The idea is to bring a worthy message through a pragmatic medium — events like the Global Form in Prague currently underway are sponsored by hardware partners (in this case, Acer) and are showcases for Microsoft products (in this case, Windows 8).
[Thank YOU, for bringing another worthy organization to my attention!].
All this, so that the players could feel the parts, bringing award worthy performances.
The task now is to bring in performances worthy of the newly restored ballroom.
I only wish we lived in a world where more celebrities used their obvious power to bring attention to worthy emergencies (not just "causes"), as Bono has done so deftly and intelligently.
This spring the barrier between these two worlds seems to be becoming more porous, with forward-thinking Off Broadway companies increasingly acting like curators of the woolly Off Off Broadway scene, using their resources to bring attention to worthy work that might otherwise be limited to small audiences.
The centerpiece of the trip, in addition to the début of the world's tallest building, was the Dubai Forum, the first in what is projected as a series of conferences bringing together worthies from around the world to discuss matters of weighty concern.
