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Even some members of the press corps were surprised by the size of the media circus at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets yesterday. “A comment that may or may not have been sexist has 17 camera crews on it,” said an incredulous David Buswell-Wilde, a cameraman for the Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB Channel...
Bride and Prejudice is certainly no masterpiece, but it doesn’t try to be. However, it’s more than merely a cinematic joyride with an ethnic traveling circus. Through a seemingly effortless marriage of disparate elements from the East and West, Chadha establishes it as a very sophisticated and sensitive film...
...Cirque du Soleil show that opened last week, is the latest, largest demonstration that the Quebec company--which began as a circus with no animals--has become the gold standard for live entertainment. Like a circus, K showcases jaw-dropping acrobatic feats, but it cradles them in outsize theatrical wizardry: a huge stage space with many scene changes and a theater designed to suit the show, with side balconies from which the performers can fly over the audience. Like a Broadway show, K has a plot, a dozen or more characters and a sonorous score. It blends these two forms...
...given up the fight. Henry Schleiff, CEO of Court TV (which is pursuing a lawsuit seeking to end New York State's ban on cameras in the courtroom during trials), maintains that TV has been unfairly blamed for the "circuslike" atmosphere at some trials. "Cameras only show the circus," he contends. "They don't create the circus." Ted Poe, a former Texas criminal-court judge and now a Republican Congressman, is another advocate. "The argument that cameras are intrusive and could somehow affect someone's testimony is bogus," he says. "Once [judges] find out the sky won't fall when...
While some have attacked Hopkins for publicizing Summers’ remarks given at a private conference, she defended her decision to talk to the media, even though she says she had no intention of inspiring a media circus...