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...first quarter, a figure that is almost certainly low-balled. But Obama aides are also insisting that the $40 million number that some of his competitors are throwing around is absurd. "The only people talking about our numbers are people who don't know," insists Obama spokesman Bill Burton...
...contest in Civil Rights-era Baltimore. Fall brings Across the Universe, a 1960s love story set to Beatles songs, directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor, with a cast including Evan Rachel Wood and Bono. And at year's end, just in time for Oscar season, comes Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp as the murderous barber in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller...
...dances, Elton John songs and lots of close-ups of Nicole Kidman's never-ending legs, could only have come from one man's brain. "You could only do that with a Baz," says Meron, meaning Australian director Baz Luhrman. "It's all about his expression as an artist." Burton, an equally idiosyncratic artistic mind, is at work on this year's Sweeney Todd. Some of us are very eager to see what Edward Scissorhands does to meat pies...
...early as 1973, economic theorist Burton G. Malkiel ’53 attacked so-called “chartists” who try to profit from technical analysis...
...Burton could sell his bottles of wry whimsy to film fans, Matthew Bourne has managed a tougher trick: getting the mass audience to go crazy for ballet. The English choreographer's updating of The Nutcracker and Cinderella have been perennials of the London theater. His all-male Swan Lake was a Broadway sensation in 1998. He also brought Samuel Beckett's Play Without Words to dance life. In a more traditional mode, Bourne co-directed and co-choreographed the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins , which started in London and came to Broadway last November. Demolishing conventions, bestriding art forms...