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...exactly 25 years prior to that date, Dec. 20, 1981, that Dreamgirls opened on Broadway. Conceived and directed by Michael Bennett, the show was a critical and popular smash. It won six Tony awards, for Book, Choreography, Lighting, Actor (Ben Harney), Actress (Jennifer Holliday) and Featured Actor (Cleavant Derricks). The prizes it didn't take - for Best Musical, Score, Direction and Featured Actress - all went to Nine, itself quite a suave piece of musical theater but not in the class of the Bennett extravaganza...
...Actor Danny Glover, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, among others, have recently visited Caracas as Chavez supporters. A group of Americans also appeared on Chavez?s Sunday television show to thank him for setting up a fuel subsidy program to supply cheap heating oil to poor families in the northeast U.S. last winter; on Monday Chavez pledged to expand the program to help Europe's poor as well. Other foreigners like Jim McLlroy, a retired government worker from Australia, have recently moved to Caracas to write about Venezuela?s political movement. "Venezuela...
...faults, I'm not among the smirkers. In that blizzard of what's-in-the-movie publicity, there was speculation that the filmmakers might shy from the Opus Dei subplot, or at least from naming the group. One wag suggested that, given the character played by the child actor Ronny Howard on The Andy Griffith Show, he might re-dub it Opie Dei. But no, he charged ahead, calling it by name and depicting the society in exactly as harsh a light as the book does. Expect protests...
...often labeled the "actor's actor." That would be too heavy for me to carry. I'm just trying to put one foot in front of the other here...
...that Cars ever idles, for the townsfolk constitute a sweet if improbable rainbow coalition of vintage vehicles. They support the trio that will retool Lightning's egotism into community spirit: gruff Doc Hudson; lovely, sensible Sally; and--the movie's breakout car-actor--an endearingly yokelish tow truck named Mater...