Word: burnette
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...since Taymor has lavished her extravagant theatrical imagination on Broadway musicals (The Lion King), operas (The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera) and movies (a gory, oneiric Titus - Shakespeare as a splatter film - and the more pedestrian Frida). And the arranger-producers of the 33 songs include T Bone Burnett, who turned the old-timey country music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? into a platinum CD treasure...
...Guatemala, Latin America's most Protestant nation, there are signs that the more charismatic approach of the Catholic Church can reverse the trend. The number of Guatemalan Protestants stopped growing at the start of the decade and now numbers between 33% and 40%, according to Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas. Every nation in this once homogenously Catholic continent has a bedrock of Catholic support that will never be eroded, and the numbers presented in Brazil last week may be a sign that those willing to choose an alternative have...
...round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action films makes him think of Nick as Martin Riggs and Marcus Burnett combined, but with a nicer accent...
...lawsuit filed by Carol Burnett claims Fox toon comedy The Family Guy stole her Charwoman character, theme music and signature ear tug. Blogsite CELEBRITY FIRST warns, "If all parodies end up with legal actions, there should be a separate ministry to deal with the lawsuits." Sadly, CF, there is such a ministry: it's called the Judicial Branch. SCORE...
...Boston in May of 1979, I was bussing tables at a restaurant, Salad for All Seasons, one of the first salad bars. I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or somebody like that. But I didn't have any idea of where to go to be a performer. I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. We were all so awful, but blissfully unaware of how awful we were...