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...Born in Tunisia, Kamoun was raised in Marseilles and studied English at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her second translation, Stephen Marlowe's Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, won the Prix Grévisse translation award, and she turned to books by John Irving. In 1999, she began her first Roth translation - the awesome family saga American Pastoral - and met the author at a colloquium on his writing in Aix-en-Provence. Since then, she has regularly consulted him on her translations, a luxury his other translators don't enjoy. "She comes to see me and we work together," Roth says...
...gobbled up the rights to such old-school classics as Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls and Pippin. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has announced plans to shoot Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Mel Brooks is set to roll on his movie turned musical turned movie, The Producers. Chris Columbus has signed on for Rent, and there are plans for big-screen versions of Bombay Dreams, Urinetown and Hairspray. Chicago cloaked its musical yearnings by having its song-and-dance numbers take place in a character's mind. Moulin used pop hits by Elton John and David Bowie. But Phantom will...
Location: Corner of Columbus and Arlington Sts., Boston
...promise you, it's me." GEORGE W. BUSH, making a phone call to a voter in Columbus, Ohio, on his way back to Washington on Election...
...polls, close a curtain and cast their vote--and then go home to honor the outcome because we have only one President at a time. --Reported by John F. Dickerson with Bush; Perry Bacon Jr. with Kerry; Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/ Washington; Eric Roston/ Columbus; Wendy Cole/ Chicago; Mitch Frank and Nathan Thornburgh/ New York; Nancy Harbert/ Albuquerque; Marc Hequet/ Milwaukee; Sandeep Kaushik/ Seattle; Brad Liston/ Orlando; Wendy Malloy/ Tampa; Tim Padgett/Miami; Michael Peltier/ Tallahassee; Betsy Rubiner/ Des Moines; Sean Scully/ Philadelphia; and Stacy J. Willis/ Las Vegas