Tick, Tick... BOOM! (by and on Netflix), titled after one of its hero's musicals, is the film directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the acclaimed creator of Hamilton . Perhaps appropriately, it is about musical theatre and, itself, turns into a musical; covering the few days, in early 1990, leading to star-crossed composer Jonathan Larson's 30 birthday. At that time, Larson, who went on to write Rent , was in the throes of completing his first musical, on which he had been working for eight years, before a crucial showcase in front major players in the industry. With social puritanism and the AIDS epidemic as background – with close friends getting infected, or sick; some of them dying, Larson, a straight man, struggles to write a final key song for his show, while confronting existential questions about creativity, his life choices, and his priorities. The film features numerous examples of Larson's work meshed into the narrative of those few days. Some are part o...
Maybe the whole nation of French should raise up against some of the candidates who are standing. But that would be against the whole ethos of the French. If the nation had an ethos, the whole nation would not have surrendered [twice] when there was a political argument.
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yes, dear, that's nice, dear.
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phew. We can now breathe a sigh of relief that corruption has gone. And the killing of cyclists.
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Until then I'll offer views, but not preach.
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