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Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore--or at your usual Broadway musical. Wicked flouts nearly every rule of hitmaking in the post--Andrew Lloyd Webber age. The sets, despite an irrelevant smoke-breathing dragon looming at the top of the curtain, are big but blah. Stephen Schwartz's songs are unmemorable. Splashy, dance-filled production numbers keep threatening to break out but remain elusively somewhere over the rainbow...
...meant to improve posture and make one more aware of one’s body, he said McHardy, who describes her Buddhist background as the “Tibetan practice lineage,” was the key factor in his continued participation. “It was all Friendly Dragon,” Gordon says, using McHardy’s “play name,” an appellation each person spontaneously coins for himself or herself in the course of a session. Gordon’s own “play name?...
...movie can create a genre. When Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a worldwide smash, esteemed directors saw the chance to paint their visions on a larger canvas, and producers were happy to bankroll them. Zhang Yimou's Hero was one such honorable spinoff. Now comes He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, China's official entry for the foreign-language Academy Award...
Consider Carol Lee Lindner, a Haverford, Pa., housewife, who says her life changed several years ago, when she discovered dragon-boat racing--competition among colorful boats, each with 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steerer. She put together Philadelphia's first women's team, then organized an annual 1,400-competitor dragon-boat festival in the city, complete with an athletes' village and an awards ceremony. "At some point, you share the gifts you have with others, and that's where I am at 63," she says...
Meanwhile in Lebanon ... Lizard Alert Beirut's residents are in terror of a giant lizard that has been roaming the streets, killing cats, dogs and even a horse. Witnesses say the reptile is a Komodo dragon, thought to be a freed pet. Authorities appealed to nature and science TV channels for help in snaring the beast, which has so far eluded the best efforts of the civil defense to catch...