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...HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH John Cameron Mitchell, who co-wrote this off-Broadway hit, also plays the "internationally ignored" song stylist who changed sexes to escape East Germany. Part nightclub monologue, part drag musical, the show has a score that outrocks Rent and a script that is by turns funny, outrageous and poignant...
Away from Broadway, however, several smaller shows are bringing in throngs of young people. Often they do it by breaking genre boundaries, mixing in elements of rock concerts or performance art. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a hot ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder...
...driving the economy's bus, it made sense for Time Inc. to mint MONEY magazine in 1972--but not without furious internal debate. Some higher-ups despised the title, if not the whole concept, as hawking greed. Circulation was a hard slog at first, and MONEY came within an inch of being shut down at least twice in its difficult early years. But by the late '70s, a focus on how-people-like-us-can-succeed lifted readership--and profits...
...fairly economical for a band to self-record and release a seven-inch or a CD," the liner notes tell us. That may be true, but just because they can is no reason for you to waste your time listening to them. Pick up the Best of New Order or Depeche Mode 101 instead. Or rent Pretty in Pink and sing along with the original tunes. Altogether now: "I touch you once/Touch you twice/Won't let go at any price...
...paleontological field of dreams. The eggs include dozens of embryos--the first to be unearthed anywhere in the southern hemisphere (and an exponential jump in the existing worldwide inventory of only five specimens). What's more, the beautifully preserved bits and pieces include tiny (about a tenth of an inch long), pencil-shaped teeth and mosaics of precise, miniature, lizard-like scales. Says American Museum paleontologist Luis Chiappe, another of the team's co-leaders: "Finding dinosaur embryos is rare enough. Finding the [soft, perishable] tissue that surrounded those bones is truly spectacular...