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...room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says its director Tim Supple. Despite all the hush-hush, there's been no shortage of advance buzz over the play, which opens in London's Barbican Theatre on Jan. 29. Its provenance alone guarantees the highest expectations: Rushdie's 1981 novel is a modern classic found on literature syllabi in universities around the world. The project's other obvious talking point is its seeming implausibility: ever since the project...
...Enron. Her mother noted the new attitude. And while Watkins rose quickly through the ranks and was thought of as whip smart, she earned an equally well-deserved reputation for lack of tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then you decide it was rude, but it's too late, you can't stop the blood flow...
...woman who didn't make her college musical just may play a pivotal role in reviving the whole movie-musical genre. Zellweger stars in Chicago, a big-screen version of the Broadway hit that opens Dec. 27 and is already generating big-time buzz. With last year's hit Moulin Rouge still on Hollywood's mind and Chicago about to break, the studios are gearing up for a new era of movie musicals. Being talked about is a new screen version of Guys and Dolls, Grease 3, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and a big-screen version...
...year when demand for consumer electronics and computers has been, well, flat, flat-screen TVs are indeed one of the few products that are generating buzz during the holiday shopping season. Unlike Shukla, however, most consumers are merely drooling over, not buying, flat-screen models, for a pretty obvious reason. While a conventional 20-inch crt (cathode-ray tube) TV can be had for well under $400, a comparably sized flat-screen is about four times more expensive. Giant versions of 40 inches or more have giant price tags as well. A 61-inch model made by Japan...
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