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...surprising that London's hottest musical is a send-up of America's looniest talk show. Of course, its creators clearly love their trash TV, even as they skewer it. The opera skillfully parodies the TV show's demented-circus atmosphere, and star Michael Brandon does a bang-on impression of Springer's smarmy solicitousness ("Chuckie, I sense you're not too happy about Shawntelle's pole-dancing dreams"). Even the backstage scenes ring true, with Springer trotting out knee-jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care...
...spoofy comedy with Bloom in his first starring role, and one last elfin turn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Finally, next May, comes Troy. You don't need to be a lovestruck teenage girl to notice that Bloom is one of the hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from...
...hottest accessories around is the "jelly kelly," a rubber, cartoon-colored version of Hermes' famous Kelly bag. Finding Nemo is easier than finding this bag: it sold out in two days at Steven Stolman in Southampton, N.Y. The tongue-in-chic bags ($60 to $145) are made by Chiarini, a small firm in Florence, Italy. Says Stolman: "It's a great concept to do the world's most expensive handbag in the world's cheapest material." --By Kate Betts
...Wall Street hopes will be a new tech mega-IPO. Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations, is fast turning the privately held company into a maniacally profitable outfit. His efforts have transformed the world's top search destination into online advertising's hottest property--scoring more than 100,000 advertisers in just 18 months. Revenues from paid searches could fetch Google $1 billion by year's end, analysts estimate...
...debate over what to do with Cambridge’s schools has become one of the hottest topics in city politics, particularly this year when the Cambridge School Committee passed a controversial plan to consolidate several elementary schools...