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...film starlet who has matured into a multitalented cinematic force--she won the Best Director award at the San Sebasti�n Film Festival in Spain last year--has grander ambitions than playing to type. "I want to show people that Chinese are just like everyone else," she says. "There's a myth that Eastern people are conservative and mysterious, but we sing and dance and feel the same emotions as anyone else...
...came up with the idea thinking that if we could have this one big campus event, it would perhaps one year become a grander thing,” Gabay says...
Spelling Bee is quite comfortable in its 296-seat off-Broadway home, where it has been selling out since its early February opening, so there's the usual trepidation about the move to grander, Broadway digs. Producer David Stone insists that the quick transfer was done not to get in under the wire for the Tony nominations but to take advantage of the show's momentum. "The actors were getting so much attention--people clamoring to offer them things--the only way we were going to keep them together was to go quickly," he says. Two splashier Broadway musicals--Monty...
There is, I think, a way to resolve this problem. There is a difference, too easily ignored, between personal ambition, which is not at all cool, and activism, which is. Personal aspirations are in poor taste; grander aspirations ought not to be. The erosion of ambition leads all too easily to the erosion of idealism. Too often, the irony in which we are steeped turns corrosive. If you can laugh at anything that smacks of pretension—and, oh, we can—idealism becomes an early casualty. The solution is not to embrace personal ambition, which remains gauche...
...election campaign, has been adamant in his stance that the elections in Ohio were fair, and that a recount would be a waste of state tax money. But Blackwell opined that a recount would cost just $1.5 million—not that much in the grander scheme of government spending, and a small price to pay to insure citizens’ faith in the election process...