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There's nothing Broadway loves better than a juicy backstage drama. And Taboo - the musical about '80s rock star Boy George, with music by the grownup Boy, George O?Dowd, and produced by talk-show diva Rosie O'Donnell - offered plenty of fodder. There were cancelled performances, reports of backstage fights, a star who walked out of a rehearsal, a director nearly fired. All that and a producer shuttling between the theater and a Manhattan courthouse, where she was involved in a lawsuit with the former publisher of her defunct magazine, Rosie...
...drug-addled fall of its most famous denizen, Boy George (Euan Morton). The book is better now, but still too unfocused, with too many characters vying for stage time, among them the campy, cross-dressing narrator, Philip Sallon (Raul Esparza), the flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery (played by O?Dowd himself) and assorted other men and women in their lives. Rather than a bustling tableau, this just seems like indecision on the part of the creators. Director Christopher Renshaw, who managed nicely in the small West End space where the show debuted, seems at a loss how to organize...
...jury was finally convened in the Ammon murder, with Pelosi as its focus. But one potentially crucial piece of evidence was missing--a laptop capable of remotely accessing the security system in the Ammon home. After being compelled to testify by a state judge, Generosa Ammon's attorney, Michael Dowd, said he had sent the computer to a security company and never got it back...
Bill James—the chief proponent of sabermetrics, a school of baseball thought based on refined statistical analysis and stubborn opposition to anything as clumsy as common sense taking its place—authored a scathing rebuke to the Dowd Report shortly after its publication, claiming to expose it as a sham. James repeated those claims yesterday...
Dershowitz portrayed himself, by contrast, as a champion of calm evidence, saying the weight of the Dowd Report meant the jury would have to believe in “a vast, vast conspiracy” to conclude that Rose had not gambled on the Reds...