In no particular order we've had Tilda Swinton wearing androgynous suits, Bobby Gillespie wearing chiffon and a girly hair parting, Annie Hall and, of course, the maestro himself, David Bowie.
Throughout the weekend at Ridgewood, Watson played at age 51 as he did at age 31, hitting radar-like iron shots, relying on a 3-wood off the tee for control and managing a challenging course like a maestro.
Despite helping Meryl Streep to an Oscar nomination with his atypical 1999 movie Music of the Heart, a syrupy film about an inspirational teacher, Craven of course became a horror maestro, with a flair for developing sequel-spawning properties.
The title alludes to a line in "The Tempest" ("Hell is empty, and all the devils are here"), and fiends surely abound: subprime sleaze kings; bonus-happy Wall Street plutocrats; and, of course, Alan Greenspan, the fallen maestro of the Federal Reserve, whose see-no-evil free-market ideology made a virtue of unchecked financial recklessness.
Then they say "Of course," and call the maestro, the guy who assembled the crew and oversees the job.
I called them "life jokes" because, funny or not, they always carried a message -- and they seemed to take a lifetime in the telling (and of course always with a maestro's sense of timing).
"Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait", a 2006 film by Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, is a portrait of Zinedine Zidane, a French footballing maestro, during the course of a single match.
There he practised on an old upright piano padded with towels to placate the neighbours – who were, of course very proud of "the maestro".
Nearby Millbrook Cottage (sheepskinlife.com/relax-at/millbrook) is offering 10% off for guests booked on The Chef's Room courses Run by French dough maestro Richard Bertinet, the Bertinet Kitchen in Bath offers a broad range of cookery courses but is especially well-regarded for its baking and bread-making expertise.
The issue, of course, is whether all this maestro-power will work its magic on the politicians, the planners, and the business sponsors of their respective cities.
