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...FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONER: Jane Henney FOUNDED: 1927 EMPLOYEES: 9,000 WHAT IT DOES: Inspects, approves and sets safety standards for foods and drugs...
...character faces the audience at the beginning of a play and starts narrating the story--it's the most overused device in modern theater, a refuge for authors who find it easier to tell rather than dramatize. But when Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel, presents herself at the start of a Broadway show and addresses the "gentle audience," it is oddly refreshing. It promises something we rarely see in theater these days: old-fashioned, Victorian, what-happens-next? storytelling...
...much of the way, that's exactly what Jane Eyre, the new Broadway musical, delivers. Written and co-directed (along with Scott Schwartz) by John Caird, who collaborated with Trevor Nunn on the memorable stage adaptations of Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables, the show does a faithful and efficient job of translating Bronte's romantic classic to the stage. Jane, the plain but plucky orphan, travels from the home of an aunt who hates her to a strict religious school that tries to drum the spirit out of her, to a position as governess in a fine house whose master...
After short speeches by representatives of the Massachusetts Green Party and Boston Global Action Network--each applauding the students for their social conscience--the group rallied around four anti-sweatshop cheerleaders, including Jane Martin...
...MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (Fox). More lovable than Raymond, more destructive than Ebola, the sugar-buzzed Malcolm dropped a firecracker down the shorts of the family-sitcom genre. Jane Kaczmarek, as ferocious, loyal Lois, is not just a mom but the life force...