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...with David Letterman. No, of course not. Except that, for the last 16 years, the queen of daytime talk had refused to be a guest of the once-hippest guy on late-night talk because he had made her feel demeaned when she did appear back in the 80s, then took her name in vain, oh, about a thousand times in subsequent shows. Not to mention, though of course they both did last night, the "Oprah... Uma..." fiasco the year Letterman hosted the Academy Awards...
...speaking for the world, I mostly did love it. The Color Purple takes the seriousness of purpose that marked the signature musicals of the 70s, 80s and 90s (your Evita, your Les Miz, your Passion) and hitches it to the propulsive narrative zip of this decade's signature musical comedies (The Producers and its zany progeny). It's an epic, largely tragic tale that rarely dawdles or meanders. Terrible things happen: incest, abduction, the dankest, most intimate forms of betrayal. Yet they are presented with so much energy, in the narrative and the performances, that the effect can be exhilarating...
Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner) 4 1/2 stars Ever since the mid-’80s, the mother of reinvention has been on a quest for enlightenment. On records such as “Like A Virgin” and “Like A Prayer,” Madonna got “Into The Groove” with (unauthorized) inspiration from Catholicism, complete with rosary and a communion-ready white dress. A decade later, on the critically-acclaimed “Ray of Light,” she boogied to Buddhism. In 2003, she changed her musical...
...interest. “Joggling will always appeal just to a fringe group,” said William R. Giduz, joggling director for the International Jugglers’ Association, an group founded in 1947. “It’s been around since the ’80s and has never taken off to hit the big time.” Warren advised would-be jogglers to join the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club. “There are lots of cute juggling nerds awaiting new people,” he said...
...Mannings are marching toward the stretch run with their quick releases, clutch completions and superior pigskin IQ passed down from their famous father Archie, a Pro Bowl quarterback who suffered the ignominy of leading the New Orleans team in the 1970s and early '80s, when the Saints were nicknamed the Aints. The brothers "both have tremendous ability to see the field," says David Cutcliffe, the offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee when Peyton starred there in 1994-97 and Eli's head coach at the University of Mississippi in 2000-03. "Their brains work so quick it's unbelievable...