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...playing just outside its doors. Exhibit A this spring is Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theater production that has been winning steady accolades (including the New York Drama Critics? award for Best Play) since opening off Broadway in April. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Lynn Nottage?s drama tells the story of a black seamstress (Viola Davis) who makes a living sewing fancy lingerie for rich society women. While patiently saving her money to open her own shop, she strikes up a correspondence with a laborer on the Panama Canal. He proposes marriage by letter...
Every reality show needs a mansion," jokes Patrick Lynn, a segment producer for American Idol. The rented eight-bedroom manse that houses Idol's finalists, in the mountains above Los Angeles, is like the show itself: big, showy and just tacky enough to be amusing. There are faux-castle turrets, an Egyptian-style horse statue, a gargantuan wooden wagon, a mammoth futuristic fake-suede couch--and three very ordinary teenage women battling America's largest case of butterflies. A few weeks ago, over a catered dinner of poached salmon and Chinese chicken salad, the contestants chatted with TIME about taking...
...music is about popularity; performance is about personality. And an Idol contestant who gets over on charm or a touching story is in good company. Singers have always used biography, real or concocted, to bond with their audience: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby...
However, such efforts fell short, and Lindquist easily coasted to the quarterfinals where she now faces Lynn Hill, a world-renowned rock climber...
...Lynn is obviously a master of her craft, and if you’re a country master and 68 years-old, I can’t think of a better idea than to tap a young and popular ‘rocker’ to make your music that more accessible. Why Jack White is dating Renee Zellwegger, however, we may never know...