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In the Stacks July 2017 Fabulous Fridays! Last Friday the Italian Job in Harmony In the Stacks July 2017 Fabulous Fridays! Last Friday The Italian Job In Harmony... If you like car chases, the swinging sixties, London, Pegasus Trio gangster films, Italian cars or Michael Caine, then The Italian Job is for you. This stylish caper film from Pegasus Trio, performing 1969 is included on lists of the greatest British films music of Bizet, Handel and features Caine, as cockney, dolly-bird friendly and Joplin as well as (ladies’ man) Charlie Croker; Noel Coward, as under- traditional Irish songs, world kingpin/crime financier Mr. Bridger (Coward’s Dixie classics and the last film appearance); and Benny Hill, as computer Trio’s original composi- genius Professor Peach. All play a part in the plan to tions. Chris Braddock, steal a fortune of gold from the Fiat factory in Italy guitar; Mindy Bowman, flute; and Jeanmarie Braddock, violin by creating a huge traffic jam. Naturally enough the make up Pegasus Trio. When not performing live, Chris cast also includes Lamborghinis, Jaguars, Alfa Rome- Braddock and Mindy Bowman enjoy busy schedules as facul- os, Fiats and Mini Coopers, the latter able to navigate ty members of The Music School of Delaware. Chris is also through shopping arcades, jump between rooftops the Guitar Department Head of the Music School and the and negotiate flights of stairs during a police chase director of the school's bluegrass ensemble the Matson Run through the timeless city of Turin. Swinging ‘60’s Pickers. Jeanmarie Braddock is also a music instructor with London is beautifully captured during the set-up of the Brandywine School District in New Castle County. the robbery. The Italian Job is still extremely popular in Friday, July 7, 6:30 PM Great Britain where its catch phrases (“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.”) are end- Family Fun: Build It Better Shop lessly repeated and it regularly play on television. On our own shores it did manage to inspire a MacGyver The audience will be transformed into engineers as they car chase sequence. Famous for its ending, a literal work with the owner of a Fix-It-Shop, played by Rick cliff-hanger, it is funny and engaging from beginning Waterhouse, to fix various and sundry broken items that to end. Just imagine Caine breaking back into the jail are brought to the shop by an assortment of characters that from which he has just been released, in order to fi- are often more interesting than the broken items they bring nance the job by meeting with Coward’s character, for repair. All ages are welcome who is surrounded by images of the Royals he wor- Friday, July 14, 6:30 PM ships. Music plays its part too, with an infectious score by Quincy Jones and a song sung by the entire World Cinema cast and featuring Cockney rhyming slang. Robert Colvile recently contributed in the Guardian, “Is there The Brand New Testament a film…that delivers a greater infusion of pure joy God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his than The Italian Job?” which he calls “chirpily patri- young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, otic.” Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com says it is Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job a “smoothly entertaining and slyly intelligent crowd and decides to rewrite the world, -pleasing spectacle that will never go out of descending to earth in search of style.” What hasn’t aged well, though, according to her own 6 messengers to write a Colvile, is its “casual sexism and jingoism.” As Nik brand new testament and change Huggins of Future Movies UK says, it is “Very much the status quo. French. 1:54. 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