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...Sunset Boulevard. Disappointing in London, where it played as a tragedy, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has been reborn in Los Angeles as a gothic comedy. Glenn Close dispels her chilly screen persona as a manipulative and shamelessly camp-melodramatic bygone movie queen, a legend in her own mind. John Napier's parvenu palazzo set is the grandest and wittiest of the British megamusical...
...including the reopening of rail links by year's end. Sports and cultural exchanges are multiplying as well-in August, a top South Korean pop star performed in Pyongyang and a group of women pro-golfers from the South played a tournament on a North Korean course where official legend holds that the Dear Leader once shot five hole-in-ones in a single round. Every day, hundreds of South Koreans visit a tourism enclave on North Korea's scenic east coast, and new tourism ventures are in the works...
...wishful.” It’s breezy fantasy, to be sure, because in no known reality is a Scrabble game conducted with every word carrying the utmost pertinence. And only in my head can I easily share a table and conversation with a college hoops legend. So here’s to you, Miles Simon, wherever you might be and wherever this crossword game called life might take you, for as Willy Wonka puts it in his soaring, climactic ditty: “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you?...
Contrast that with the tortured, Delphic utterances that have become legend with Greenspan. His wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, has joked that he proposed twice before she understood what he was saying. After tongue-twisting comments by Greenspan to the Economic Club in New York City in 1995, headlines reflected the confusion he had sown. GREENSPAN HINTS FED MAY CUT INTEREST RATES, read the Washington Post. DOUBTS VOICED BY GREENSPAN ON A RATE CUT, said the New York Times. But the Maestro was clear about one thing: "Since becoming a central banker I have learned to mumble with great incoherence...
...with a love of numbingly-elaborate swordplay, an itch for preschool humor, and a bunch of very irritated classmates. In other words, an evil cinematic mastermind. Director Martin Campbell seems to be the maniacal spawn of this unholy entertainment tryst. Campbell’s “The Legend of Zorro” (a sequel to his 1998 hit “The Mask of Zorro”) has more puerile laughs than it has plot in its two lurching, painful hours. This movie is like a bottle of Jägermeister: painful on the way down, dizzying once it?...