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...grew up in Amsterdam. How old were you when you first smoked...
...home to hookers, dirty bookstores and grungy B-movie palaces. Now a little stretch of 42nd Street west of Broadway in New York City is the most happening piece of show-biz real estate in the world. On one side of the street is the refurbished New Amsterdam Theater, where Disney's The Lion King, a stage version of Simba's tale that opened to raves in November, is the hottest-selling show in Broadway history. Just across the street, at another rebuilt theater dubbed the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the eagerly awaited Ragtime has just opened...
...Christian Brothers' Academy, where he played his high school ball before prepping at St. Thomas More, he was a two-year basketball captain and a Street & Smith's Honorable Mention All-American as a senior. Clemente poured in 45 points against Amsterdam to set a school record, accumulating more than 1,000 points in a glittering career...
...Amsterdam Theater When it opened in 1903, it was a showplace on New York City's 42nd Street. In the bump and grind of the years after, both the street and the theater saw hard times. By the 1980s, the New Amsterdam was a wreck. Now, after a wizardly revitalization by Hugh Hardy, one sponsored by the Walt Disney Co., it's back in all its rose-bowered, peacocked, multichromed, Art Nouveau glory...
...Lion King The Broadway audience might have settled for the animated feature plopped directly (and predictably) onstage. But director and costume designer Julie Taymor wanted to create a different kind of fascination. Through puppetry, shadow figures and masks, Taymor makes her Lion King--at the renovated New Amsterdam Theater (see above)--the master of a powerful realm, ancient and African, full of ritual, magic...