Word: circus
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Having entertained myself with this little circus, I began to get angry. Then I felt a sense of weirdness and unease moving in. This, as I e-mailed to the young women, is a very strange thing for a man to do - to steal, or anyway to borrow for the evening, without permission, another man's identity. The young women and I exchanged a dozen e-mails. They are lively and intelligent; both work in media jobs in New York...
Theater in Las Vegas, of course, has been a lot more than Buddy Hackett for some time now. Cirque du Soleil--with two shows, O and Mystere, drawing sellout crowds--has introduced a whole new audience to its lyrical mix of circus and performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra...
...Deftones has been through this buzz circus before. White Pony is its third album. The last two sold well, but not spectacularly. "We've pretty much stopped listening to everyone's predictions," says lead singer Chino Moreno. "We know where we're headed. Longevity is our only goal...
...This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought a machine that will turn her chicken stalag into...
...Cirque du Soleil's new Vegas show "Asian Pole Dancing" b) an exhibition sport for the Sydney Olympics c) a North Korean circus troupe d) The Perfect Storm: The Musical...