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...year-old Zhang Jun is changing all that. The newly promoted deputy director of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre, Zhang believes the art form can be salvaged to appeal to audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Opera House Rules | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...help his wife Supriya deliver the couple's third child at home. It was possibly the only thing that has happened in his life for which he didn't have a multipoint plan. Louisiana's new Republican Governor boasts a level of ever-prepared wonkiness that doesn't typically appeal to the state's voters, who often opt for colorful pols, glad handers and bons vivants. Jindal knows he'll never be that guy. Why try to fake it? "For too long, politics have been entertainment in Louisiana," he tells me two days after winning the state's off-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Bobby Jindal | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...FAMOUS HAWAIIAN-beach kiss with co-star Burt Lancaster in the wartime drama From Here to Eternity introduced sex appeal, however tame it may seem by contemporary standards, to 1950s moviegoers. Previously cast for roles that accentuated her genteel English demeanor, Deborah Kerr gave a sultry performance that earned her a spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 5, 2007 | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...would you characterize the appeal of Young Frankenstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Favorite Babe | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...essay, Thurman takes on a new topic with equal ferocity, laying out for her reader the inner workings of the minds of artists, eccentrics, and politicians alike.Thurman opens her collection with “The Wolf at the Door,” a horrifying essay with a strangely hypnotic appeal. “The Wolf at the Door” profiles Anne Beecroft, a performance artist whose work centers on bulimia. Thurman does not shy away from reporting the gruesome details of Beecroft’s disorder, facing gory facts without flinching. “Bulimics often separate the courses...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Digging Beneath Tofu and Art | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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