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...narrative free. The show opens with Dion singing Nat King Cole's Nature Boy in a solitary spot, then segues into a series of increasingly colorful, abstract production numbers. Dion is at center stage for some songs and hovers at the edges during others while an usher character provides comic relief. The dancers--with moves veering from Flashdance to Fonteyn--are electric. The LED screen provides crisp and dynamic scenery. Dion's voice sounds fantastic...
...improbable comedy. (Daniel's parents are remote Wasps who drop by one day to tell him they are leaving all their money to a local raptor-preservation society.) And in the unraveling fabric of his life, Daniel's blindness to his own predicaments is a lightly stitched comic thread. He's an intelligent man, but in matters of the heart, he has a muscular stupidity that gives him the strength...
...night talk show; of complications from a blood clot in the brain following a long bout with leukemia; in Los Angeles. He and Letterman met on the L.A. comedy-club circuit in the 1970s, and the talk-show host invited him for more guest appearances--56--than any other comic...
...Hong Kong International Literary Festival?that sure sounds like an oxymoron. Isn't Hong Kong the place where residents are interested exclusively in the Hang Seng Index, Rolex watches and, um, Rolex watches? Where the closest thing to a hot comic novel is Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's latest plan to stabilize the real estate market...
...Guide to the Galaxy began life as a BBC radio series 25 years ago this month, and went on to sell millions of copies as a novel. H2G2, as the entire opus is now known, grew into a multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton...