Tunisia, the defending African champions and regular World Cup qualifiers, have been highly impressive, but performances from the four teams who will make their World Cup debuts in Germany have been mixed.
Yet while director Scott Cooper Crazy Heartt, Out of the Furnace) coaxes an all-but-unrecognisable performance from Depp as Boston crime boss James Whiteyy" Bulger, it isn't quite enough to lift the drama out of the formulaic doldrums.
John DeMain drew a rough-edged but enthusiastic performance from the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra.
Marco Guidarini, in his company debut, gets a passably good but uninspired performance from the Met orchestra.
But this performance, from 1958 (sound is good), feels right for the music.
The conductor Marco Guidarini, in his company debut, got a passably good but uninspired performance from the Met orchestra on opening night.
Djokovic wins 7-6, 6-7, 6-7, 6-3, after riding the rip-tides and surges of a superb but streaky performance from France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Rachel Perkins directs with fluency and there's another small but evocative performance from the always magnetic Patricia Morton Thomas as Auntie Mona Brewster.
Eighth-ranked Virginia Tech, with four touchdown runs from Lee Suggs and a brief but spectacular performance from Michael Vick, its redshirt sophomore quarterback, humiliated the Scarlet Knights today, 49-0, in the Big East opener for both teams.
With one setting and three actors (including a small but memorable performance from Alex Dimitriades as Lana's ex-boyfriend Terry), the real fun beings when multiple versions of the characters arrive from alternate time frames.
But I would, not least because the 1969 original is ridiculously overrated and the remake features not just better action sequences but a performance from Mark Wahlberg – in the Michael Caine role – that no one has properly appreciated.
