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...outsize theatrical spectacle.) The top ticket price is $150 for the 95-min. show, which runs ten times a week, compared to a Broadway musical's eight. The show could well take its place in the Cirque empire: five permanent shows in Vegas, another (La Nouba) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and six tent shows, from the new Corteo to the 14-year-old Saltimbanco. These enterprises are hugely successful; their total annual box office revenue is close to the $840 million earned by all Broadway shows this season...
...country. One high-def disc format must win, though it's still too early to know which. There will likely be a balanced roster of titles on each side by Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal and Warner Bros, with additional movies from Paramount, with Sony, Lionsgate, Fox and Disney leading the Blu-ray lineup. Paramount and Warner have pledged to make Blu-ray discs, too, but I'll wager that the two studios' respective aces, the Star Trek box set and The Matrix Trilogy, appear in HD DVD first. Once again, tables may turn when...
...make the argument, though, that originality online--as on TV--isn't always the best business. Disney, for example, has resisted doing original Web video for ABC and the Disney Channel, but it's had huge success airing online reruns. Besides the popularity of Lost online, the Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody started getting its best TV ratings ever after airing episodes online. "This validates what we already knew: that broadband does not take away from television," says Disney--ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney...
...Linda, Linda, Linda is another high-school drama, 180 degrees from Cromartie. Similar to, but not nearly so engaging as, the Disney TV-movie hit High School Musical, this one is an earnest, virtually all-girl story about a quartet who hope to win their year-end talent competition with a rendition of the Blue Hearts? 80s hit song that is this movie?s title. The proceedings, under Nobuhiro Yamashita?s sluggish direction, are predictable and hardly worth noting - except for that song, simple and simply irresistible, which neither meditation nor surgery has been able to remove from my head...
...looks younger), was the person who introduced me some decades back to the crossword magazines put out by Dell. At the time, Dell was the gold standard in puzzle publications (as well as a leader both in mass-market paperbacks and in comic books, especially those produced by Disney). I was hooked, instantly and eternally, not so much by the crosswords as by the number and word games that filled out the Dell pages. So I figured I owed her, and Shortz, a grudging attempt to get with the Sudoku program...