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Audiences around the world gawk at the production's snazz and scope: / lightning bolts, trapdoors, a musician's tomb that is bigger than Grant's. They bathe in the show's warm melody and soap-opera suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...
When you're finished, head to the Rocky Mountain chocolate factory for dessert. Just be sure to recycle any paper or plastic--Aspen is enviro-conscious to the max. And don't gawk at celebrities--it isn't polite...
...Idle thought: Is Wildmon now on the payroll of liberal TV producers, who use him to attract controversy -- and viewers -- to their shows?) It's hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being a witch. Lear has made a valiant effort to break one of TV comedy's last remaining taboos. But God has always been a better straight...
...opening-day crowd began to leave their seats. Rather than rushing to beat the traffic home, they set out on sightseeing tours along the broad concourses ringing the field. It was an epic day, the unveiling of the new Comiskey Park, and Chicago White Sox fans were ready to gawk. The splendor of the grass, the picture-perfect sight lines from the lower deck and the allure of the sun-speckled bleachers all trumpeted that this was a park made for baseball. Before the game, aging knuckleballer Charlie Hough, trying to hang on with the White Sox, captured the festive...
...veteran American League team physician remarked that Jackson's stocky, heavily muscled physique was the only one that had made him gawk. But other players are bigger, stronger or faster, making the two-sport athlete a rare and endangered species. The only other active two-sport pro, Atlanta Falcons defensive back Deion Sanders, was dropped by the Yankees last season after several trips to the minors, but he has since been picked up by the Braves as an outfielder. There is an old sports dictum that Jackson should perhaps have studied with greater care: baseball pays more...