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MAY 2013
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YOU
FORTHEMUSIC
Discover the dancing queen
within at ABBA the Museum
As a rule, warbling loudly in a
museum doesn’t end well.
Not so at ABBA the Museum,
which opens this month in
Stockholm. “This is the most
interactive exhibition in the
world,” says curator Ingmarie
Halling, who used to do hair and
makeup for the band. “When
you walk in, you walk through
the life of ABBA.”
Rather than displaying
objects in cases, the museum
places them in various repro-
duced settings: the dressing
room, the summer house, the
recording studio. In the last one,
would-be Björns and Agnethas
are invited to perform before a
green screen, after which their
sessions are digitally inserted
into original footage, then made
available for downloading from
the museum’s website.
But the hands-on approach
does have its limits—the one
thing you’re not allowed to do
in the faux studio is make use
of its ’70s-era ashtrays. “This
was a time when everybody
smoked,” Halling explains. “It’s
different now.”
MAY 7
ANDERS HANSER/PREMIUM ROCKSHOT (ABBA)
“
SHE STARED AT THE EMPTY SPACE WHERE HER BACON
HAD BEEN, AND THEN SHE STARED AT THE DOG, ITS
EXPRESSION SMUG, AND ALL THE FRUSTRATIONS OF HER
LIFE BOILED UP IN HER HEAD. A DOG EATING HER BACON,
A DOG EATING HER BACONWHILE SHE WAS JOBLESS.”
—
From
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the critically acclaimed Nigerian
author of
Purple Hibiscus
.
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THEMONTHAHEAD
Rule of Three
One’s a superhero tale, one’s a love story, and one shows yet again that
comedies don’t need actual jokes. Each represents the third installment
in a hit film franchise—but that’s about all they have in common.
IRONMAN 3
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
THE HANGOVER PART III
Our hero, Tony Stark
(
Robert Downey Jr.),
blasts, batters and
wisecracks foes into
submission in a
quest for revenge and,
of course, world
salvation.
MAY3
Having met, fallen in
love, drifted apart,
drifted back together
again, etc., Jesse
(
Ethan Hawke) and
Celine (Julie Delpy)
are now co-habitating
parents.
MAY24
Alan (Zach Galifiana-
kis) is reeling after the
death of his father.
TheWolfpack bands
together. Bad decisions
are made. Hilarity
ensues.
MAY24
PLOT
IRONMAN 4
:
The franchise starts
looking a little rusty.
BEFORE 6 P.M.
:
Bedtime for our 80-
something lovebirds.
THE HANGOVER
PART IV
:
Trouble in rehab.
NEXT INSTALLMENT?
Three
Nine
Two
YEARS SINCE LAST FILM
Ben Kingsley’s coif is a
force to be reckoned with.
The young lovers are
older, wiser and ... older.
Nothing. Even Mike Tyson
remains.
UPPING THE ANTE
It isn’t directed by
Jon Favreau.
“
Will they make it?”
may not be as exciting as
“
Will they make out?”
No wedding?
No bachelor party?
What can they mess up?
POTENTIAL PITFALLS
