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...Vardalos, Moonves got a Hollywood player with a lot more control than she would have had if CBS had picked up the show before the movie came out. Vardalos, 40, after telling the immigrants-shocked-by-America joke for seven years, wants to do a smaller, more character-driven family show that picks up after the couple return from their honeymoon. The family will be a little less cartoonish, not as weapons-grade Greek as it was in the film. "They will be a little hipper, a little less Old World. The risk is, we won't capture the feeling...
...London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door to a primary school! And there...
CHICAGO. The potential revival of the Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Die-hard Bob Fosse fans may leave screaming in disgust, but fortunately for the rest of us director Rob Marshall knows...
...remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace and final stronghold of the Incas, where virgins sought sanctuary and priests worshipped the sun god. The charismatic Bingham--a Yale University archaeologist, later a Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator and much later a model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones--announced, in a series of magazine articles and best-selling books, what he had found, and the world ate them up. Tourists and spiritual seekers have been making the pilgrimage to Machu Picchu ever since...
...Time Warner-owned CETV, plays safer. Instead of trying to create lots of new programming for China, it relies on imported favorites, such as Tom and Jerry cartoons, a British cooking program and dubbed series from Korea and Taiwan. AOL also plans to expose the Chinese to American politics?Hollywood-style?by broadcasting the Emmy Award-winning White House drama The West Wing to its Guangdong audience. "We're not hemming ourselves in by copying Western formats," says Steve Marcopoto, president of Turner International Asia-Pacific...