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...when it comes to musicals. Unlike most of my colleagues, I'm a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber; I never understood what was so hateful about "The Seussical"; and I seem to be the only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin" as the material for her next musical...
...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...Europe Wednesday, markets were open and bouncing back to their previously glum levels - Gold and oil pulled back from Tuesday's spikes, and London actually saw a small rally on health-care stocks - but in large part investors seemed in sympathy with their American counterparts and stayed on the sidelines, with volume extremely thin...
...apparently, no will of his own. Iago is Hugo (Josh Hartnett), the coach's son with a bit of a grudge. Desdemona is Desi (Julia Stiles); Emilia is Emily (Rain Phoenix). As the updated plot is predictably spun out by scripter Brad Kaaya, your response may be a glum "Uh-O." Best to watch the many ovals that Nelson has cleverly worked into the visual design, and to savor Hartnett's handsomely conflicted turn as a youngster of promise that rancor sours into threat. On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things...
...economy unequivocably in a recession for a full year, cut 141,000 jobs - 141,000 workers from their payrolls in August. For the machinist who has to go home and tell his wife he?s out of a job, that?s bad. And it?s a sign of how glum everybody is that Wall Street sold hand-over-fist on the news - with the Dow shedding 240 points by early afternoon. (These days, investors are so strung out by this slowdown - and the Fed is easing so implacably - that most bad news is just plain...