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...leaped to life as Proposhkin in Gogol's Diary of a Madman and Cate Blanchett came of age as Miranda in The Tempest. It's also where Armfield dreamed up his 1998 stage adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet, the epic production that put his name in theatrical heaven. With 14 actors playing 40 characters over 20 years in five hours, the director's craft was stretched to breaking point. But as Armfield says, "Having set yourself up for failure is actually a great spur...
...years. Move over. America's 1,000 most popular baby names of 2005--released earlier this month by the Social Security Administration--show that while biblical names still dominate the boys' list, nontraditional, spiritual-sounding names are rising fast among the girls. Destiny is No. 32, Nevaeh--heaven backwards, which didn't make the list before 2001--ranks 70th, and the U.S. welcomed 2,195 girls named Genesis (No. 155) last year. Such names "are a post-9/11 trend," says Pamela Redmond Satran, co-author of eight baby-name books. "They come from a dual drive for meaning...
Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen (as in speed and Steve), the hottest rookie on the circuit, and doesn't he know it! He's got drive, heaven knows, but no perspective. Who needs friends, or a pit crew? He's a one-man show! Ka-chow! Lightning's main rivals in the movie's opening race are "the King" (racing legend Richard Petty), who's going for one last win before he retires, and a dirty-driving mug named Chick (Michael Keaton), who's so rotten that one of his sponsor decals reads htB, for Hostile Takeover Bank...
...concert version of the Gershwins' 1931 hit Of Thee I Sing. Or go further northeast to one of the city's magnificent cultural resources, the 92nd Street Y, which last weekend presented "Hooray for Hollywood: Johnny Mercer at the Movies." Those are the places I was this week, in heaven. Read on, and sing along...
...fact all the more troubling because the city is “possibly the most friendly place to be transsexual in the country.” Keisling summed up the need for self-determination in the transgender movement by telling an anecdote about three mice who go to heaven, ask an angel for rollerskates, receive them, and are subsequently eaten by three cats who praise heaven’s “meals on wheels” program. “The point of that story,” Keisling said, “is that if you?...