Word: magda
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...gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise. "Somehow or other, his imagination is wired up to the future," says actor and comedian Magda Szubanski, who has added zing to three of Miller's recent films, including his latest hit, Happy Feet, "and he really seems to be able to bring back to us in the present day possibilities that most of us couldn't even imagine...
...tucked into hip-riding jeans as she sits sipping smoothies with her girlfriends in an upmarket caf?. "We are aware that we need to be veiled," she explains. "But we are young and we want to be modern and trendy." Such attitudes draw double takes from conservative Egyptians like Magda Samaha, who scoffs, "These are covered, yet naked, women...
...finding by the HMS researchers—who included Dudley Lamming, Oliver Medvedik, and Magda Latorre-Esteves, in addition to Sinclair—reveals that Sir2 does not serve this function alone. Rather, a group of related genes—the Sir2 family—plays a major role in regulating lifespan. Sinclair said that one of the genes in the family appears to control functions such as fat metabolism and cell survival, while another controls body temperature and the efficiency with which an organism uses energy, and yet others protect against diabetes...
...first the opera does appear to be something of a rewrite. The story certainly recalls La Traviata: Parisian Courtesan Magda meets innocent Country Boy Ruggero, loves him and then, out of concern for his family's honor, leaves him. And as in La Bohème, there is a joyous café scene and a secondary pair of quarrelsome lovers. Yet the feel of La Rondine is very different, for Magda is a more worldly-wise heroine than either Violetta or Mimi. Her affair with Ruggero is a self-deluding attempt to recapture a lost moment from her youth...
Aside from a somewhat shaky performance from Rumanian-born Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, who sings Magda, the Lyric's handsome, glittering production is cast with young Americans. Originally presented in 1981 at Pisa's Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, it is directed by Giulio Chazalettes, who might have made more of Rondine's disillusioned subtext and in so doing brought out its richer texture. But as performers gradually realize the opera's possibilities, harder-edged interpretations will no doubt follow...