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...then the audience had been pretending to have a good time, even though it was succumbing to an increasingly sullen silence. But the old boy, with his grumbling voice, a few licks on a guitar-like instrument and his quite uncanny resemblance to Depp (at least in pirate drag) got their motors running for a few minutes. You wish they'd given Richards more to do, if only to let us gaze more deeply at the noble ruin...
...that with the 1960s, when studios churned out memorable musicals - West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins - like they pump out comic book films today. But this year, an eclectic slate of movie musicals is challenging the notion that the genre exists so the mommy quadrant can drag the daddy quadrant out on date night. Opening over the next few weeks is Once, a scrappy, Irish guy-meets-girl yarn made for less than $200,000 and featuring Glen Hansard, the lead singer of the Dublin rock band The Frames as a busker/vacuum repairman trying to launch...
...PRESENT LIFE IN THE KEY OF ME ME ME In Hairspray, Blonsky and Travolta, who is in drag here as Edna Turnblad in the role Harvey Fierstein played on stage, are sassy mother-daughter spokes-models for plus-size empowerment. "You have to find a theme that contemporary audiences relate to," says Neil Meron, producer of Hairspray and the 2002 film Chicago. "Hairspray is about body image, racial tolerance, what constitutes a family." Think Oprah's Live Your Best Life tour, with a beat and bigger hair...
...according to the Williams Institute, a gay think tank at UCLA, Dallas has the ninth largest concentration of same-sex couples in the nation. As the Dallas visitors bureau gurgles, "[Dallas] has left behind stereotypes of big-haired women and rowdy cowboys--that is, unless you count sassy drag queens and strapping gay rodeo champs...
...last week in Bangkok, Chinese delegates-with the support of India and other developing nations-tried to tone down the report, pushing to remove the most ambitious possible targets for future carbon-emission levels. The move failed, but it's unlikely to be the last time China and India drag their feet on climate change. "It's clear that the developed world will not move without something from the developing nations," says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. But at the same time, she adds, "there's no chance of getting China unless...