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...Cynics can scoff at the product's bubblegum blandness, but that's precisely what's helped make HSM a global hit. The archetypes of Gabriella the brainy new girl in town, Troy the jock and Sharpay the diva travel well, as do the poppy songs and the themes of first love, cliques and friendship. Ross toured 25 regional Disney Channels around the globe two years ago, trying to convince them of HSM's potential. He met resistance "everywhere." But when Chinese or Russian marketers would fret that local viewers wouldn't get cheerleaders or basketball, he would drill down...
...Unretiring Diva It's a pity that your "Brief History of: Un-Retirement" focused on sports stars [July 28]. Otherwise, it might have mentioned the celebrated case of soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The phrase "More farewells than Nellie Melba" still has currency in her native Australia. After her official farewell at London's Covent Garden in 1926, she returned to Australia two years later to sing farewell in Sydney and, over the next few months, Melbourne, Geelong, and finally Adelaide. No matter whether the arena is sporting, theatrical or musical, no one can really be said to have "done...
...bottom. In her recent work, Madonna has pursued dominatrix fantasies until she may be the only one getting off on them. She is in danger of going the blond widow in Body of Evidence one desperate step further, and loving herself to death. She can also play the vulnerable diva. When two teddy bears from admirers landed at her feet in Toronto, she begged, ''Just throw soft things at me, please.'' But Madonna is no Garland or Monroe, a prisoner to her neuroses. This is a woman in complete control of her career, canny about her image and ever protective...
...Known as "La Diva Turca" throughout her more than 70 roles at Italy's La Scala opera house, Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer won a reputation for both her beautiful voice and her imperious personality. Critics were wowed by her inspired performances in everything from Madame Butterfly to Don Giovanni. Offstage, Gencer was unabashed about her domineering manner, explaining simply, "I say what I think...
...some extent previous attempts to label the Web the angriest medium ever, also shored up by the majority of comments below this paper’s editorials. Take the example of ‘Pabruce,’ the most active contributor to the novel and its ready diva. Among other things, Pabruce introduced a non-lethal drug called strychnine that would become a “code word for global warming”. When another user wrote his theatrical voice into the novel, however, this Ms. Ross figure deleted all his edits, nearly scuttling the nascent work. Days later...