DON’T LET THURSDAY DISTRACT YOU

Time magazine chokes, Iranian President-elect possible hostage-taker, and Brooke Shields goes all FEMINIST on Tom Cruise. Kelly Macdonald saves humanity, a concept the nimble Nighy somehow manages to keep aloft for an hour and forty minutes. In the real world, let’s hope Pink Floyd takes the stage by ripping into the lopsided, “Money” riff (in 7/4), let those 8 power-drunk white men sort that one out…


FAVORITE PIANISTS (living)


1. Andras Schiff (Bach, Schubert, Schumann)

2. Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (Beethoven)

3. Leif Ove Andsnes (Schubert)

4. Maria Tipo (Mozart)

5. Mikhail Pletnev

6. Leon Fleisher (Beethoven, Brahms Concerti with Szell)

7. Richard Goode (Beethoven, Brahms)

8. John O’Connor (Beethoven)

9. Mitsuko Uchida (Schubert)

10. Helen Grimaud (Rachmaninoff)