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...advice for the actors who will be getting Oscar nods later this month? Digest it. Absorb it. Observe it. Don't have an anxiety attack. When I was talking to some of the other nominees last year, I couldn't find anybody behind their pupils. They took it too seriously...
...From a macroeconomic perspective, "Going Out" often works to China's advantage. The country now attracts more money through exports and foreign investment than its economy can comfortably digest, causing speculative bubbles in some sectors. This capital inflow is boosted by investors' betting that the government will sooner or later revalue the national currency, which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and is widely thought to be undervalued. Outbound investment by Chinese companies removes dollars from swelling national reserves, easing pressure on the renminbi to appreciate. China has given 22 of its cities and provinces the right to approve overseas...
...figure or show-biz great into the vehicle for a star turn (from Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight to Tovah Feldshuh's Golda's Balcony, which opened last season and is still running--so make that six!) seems a lazy way of making rich subject matter easy to digest--and almost guaranteeing a Tony acting nod in the bargain. Then there are the autobiographical shows, which can occasionally be dishy and inspired (Elaine Stritch at Liberty) but just as often superfluous ego trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years...
...part, Sufjan is keeping the faith by remaining faithful to the music he’s been making since the oboe in middle school, since the dog days of “Readers Digest renderings of famous classical works.” If he’s not writing arrangements for his new album on the piano, he’s tuning his banjo or tapping a beat on the computer, an instrument he learned could be “really musical.” Evidence can be found on his electro-acoustic opus, “Enjoy Your Rabbit...
...work schedules, and networks are increasingly afraid that viewers will miss episodes, fall behind and give up. "There is now the S word--serialization--that the networks are terrified of," says J.J. Abrams, creator and executive producer of Alias and Lost. On the other hand, procedurals "are easy to digest," says Peter Jankowski, an executive producer of NBC's three Law & Order series. A fourth, Trial by Jury, is coming in midseason...