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Dan Cody's Yacht is now in previews ahead of a Wednesday, June 6 opening night at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. The cast of Dan Cody's Yacht features Kristen Bush Taking Care of Baby at Mtc, The City of Conversation, Meredith Forlenza 1984, The Winslow Boy, Laura Kai Chen Her, Days of Our Lives,Rick Holmes Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, John Kroft Dracula, Jordan Lage Race, Speed-the-Plow, Roxanna Hope Radja Ruins of Civilization at Mtc, Torch Song, and Casey Whyland Billy Elliot the Musical.

Best British movies of all time? (Image: a young Michael Caine in 'Get Carter') Ten years ago, Get Carter, starring Michael Caine as a dangerous-looking London gangster (see photo above), was selected as the United Kingdom's very best movie of all time according to 25 British film critics polled by Total Film magazine. To say that Mike Hodges' 1971 thriller was a surprising choice would be an understatement. I mean, not a David Lean epic or an early Alfred Hitchcock thriller? What a difference ten years make. On Total Film's 2014 list, published last May, Get Carter was no. 44 among the magazine's Top 50 best British movies of all time. How could that be? Well, first of all, people would be very naive if they took such lists seriously, whether we're talking Total Film, the British Film Institute, or, to keep things British, Sight & Sound magazine. Second, whereas Total Film's 2004 list was the result of a 25-critic consensus,...