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...Infamy: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
...fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy. The wise, grandfatherly neighbor from whom Amélie seeks guidance is a misanthropic crank. Even Amélie's beloved goldfish...
...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...respectively. Don't think theater producers aren't paying attention. At least half a dozen musicals based on feature films are in the works, and chances are they'll now be on a faster track to Broadway. Among them: Sweet Smell of Success, from the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis classic about a ruthless gossip columnist; Thoroughly Modern Millie, above, a reworking of the 1967 film starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore; and musical versions of Summer of '42, That Thing You Do and John Waters' Hairspray...
...certainly seems seductive at the moment," says producer Ira Pittelman, who hopes to have a musical based on the Oscar-winning Moonstruck in workshop this fall. "People are looking to classic films and, in a way, Moonstruck is an aria with big, wide emotions." And if you can't wait for these shows to make the long trip to the stage, the first post-Producers movie-inspired musical is already here: The It Girl, about the life of silent-screen-star Clara Bow, which New York City's York Theater Company has just opened off-Broadway...