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...most part, though, Hollywood films, instead of blossoming into real musicals, content themselves with slipping in a musical moment, a singing epiphany. This is usually a scene where all the lead characters, or at least a large number of them, get together and sing in an otherwise non-singing movie. In "Magnolia," the characters suddenly forget they're in a drama and start singing along to the Aimee Mann soundtrack. In "Beautiful Girls," Timothy Hutton leads his pals in a rendition of "Sweet Caroline." And in "My Best Friend's Wedding" - and this scene is a classic of the genre...
...content with just hearing what your professor has to say, or what the New York Times has to say," Brinton told students. "Grab a Wall Street Journal, grab a Washington Times, grab a [Harvard] Salient...
...Game is that it will be less than ground-breaking. And the two new plays from the pen of millionaire writer-director Alan Ayckbourn, House and Garden (two interconnected pieces performed by the same cast simultaneously on two different stages at the National Theater) are all concept and no content. In fact, the best piece of original, recent English writing in London today is probably Passion Play by Peter Nichols. Nichols' new work has been unofficially banned from the West End because of a nasty dispute with the National Theater some years ago, but this new revival...
This year, Galluccio, it seems, is content to hold his position as mayor...
Most journalists are content to produce a story, then sit back and watch for its effects. Not Bill and Judith Moyers, the husband-and-wife television-documentary makers whose independent production company, Public Affairs Television, has turned out 63 programs over the past 25 years, amassing more than 30 Emmy Awards. Long before completing On Our Own Terms, the four-part series on dying that airs this week on public-broadcasting stations across the U.S., they had helped launch more than 200 community-based coalitions that have been planning activities to raise public awareness of the end-stage care issues...