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...Mitchell has found the heart--and the laughs and the sexiness too--in a knockout follow-up to his career-making role two seasons ago as Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime. His crystal-clear baritone brings out all the graceful intricacy of Porter's lyrics, and he moves from Shakespearean verse to comic pratfalls with ease. It would be demeaning to point out that Mitchell has the best posture on Broadway, but there's something about that lean, ramrod-straight bearing that manages to both poke fun at itself and radiate real stage charisma. This new Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway...
...rationale for turning the television show Charlie's Angels into a movie is still a mystery, but the question of who will play the well-coiffed crime stoppers has finally been solved. Though Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz signed on months ago, producers had a devil of a time finding a third angel. At various points in the protracted casting search, everyone from Posh Spice to Angelina Jolie was touted as the leading candidate. But last week LUCY LIU, who plays the less-than-saintly Ling on Ally McBeal, nabbed the role. The movie will diverge from the series...
...touch with ordinary folks, they risk sounding like George Will when he writes about baseball. But this exhibit is an indicator of a real impulse in the art world lately to find vitality wherever it's to be found, now that the energies that moved modernism have long ago run aground. Perhaps for the first time in history, it's truly possible to ask an essential question: Can you take seriously an artist who illustrated 50 years of the Boy Scout calendar...
...Nostradamus were alive today, his job would be safe, at least from the misguided futurists on Wall Street. Exhibit A is a gutsy little tome penned 10 years ago called A View from the Year 2000. As a device to forecast the '90s, Shearson Lehman Hutton looked back on a decade that hadn't yet happened. The first thing you notice in the report, though, isn't some way-out prediction--it's that the names Shearson and Hutton are about as familiar to investors today as were Dell and Cisco to analysts a decade ago--which...
Another new drug, called Remicade, approved just a few weeks ago by the FDA, is also the focus of a JAMA report. A medication called methotrexate has long been the treatment of choice for rheumatoid arthritis. It is not an NSAID, so it doesn't cause ulcers--but for many patients it stops working after a while. More than half the people who took Remicade along with methotrexate had at least a 20% reduction in arthritis symptoms, according to the study...