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Cherry Jones, one of our best stage actresses, is surprisingly subdued as Shaw's Salvation Army idealist, and David Warner, in his U.S. stage debut, is too suave and nonthreatening as her arms-merchant father, the capitalist who alters her dreams. Still, even if the Roundabout Theatre's new production of Shaw's great comedy lacks some pizazz, it can't douse the fire of a dramatist out to bust open the sentimentality and conventional wisdom that infected both society and the stage. We could use a new Shaw today; until he (or she) comes along, the old one will...
...wave of hip-hop-soul singers provides a safe haven: music that's gritty but not dirty, youthful without being adolescent. (This month hip-hop-soul newcomer Alicia Keys, a protege of Clive Davis, the executive who signed Houston, saw her charming first album, Songs in A Minor, debut on the charts...
...boys want in. In June, American, United, Continental, Delta and Northwest launched Orbitz, a site that promises the lowest fares on the Web. Combined, the five airlines book more than 75% of domestic traffic. Just a month after its debut, Orbitz is already the sixth most popular travel site on the Web. Nearly 4 million people visited the site in June...
...brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just signed a deal with Miramax Films worth $10 million a picture. In China, movie stars are called film workers. In America, Jet Li is what they call a player...
...Givenchy's. It was 28-year-old Welshman Julien Macdonald's turn to try to revamp the legendary house after enfant terrible Alexander McQueen quit to build his own brand with Gucci Group. Macdonald, who once designed knitwear for McQueen, played it safe. Very safe. Macdonald makes dull Paris debut, said London's Independent. The collection was lovely, but not ground-breaking. It looked like a job application for a couturier. Macdonald seemed to be saying, "I can do beading! I can do tucks! I can do embroidery!" He has also said that nothing would make him happier than...