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...What's the magic of Idol...
...when the physiological activity of the brain ceases, as far as anyone can tell the person's consciousness goes out of existence. Attempts to contact the souls of the dead (a pursuit of serious scientists a century ago) turned up only cheap magic tricks, and near death experiences are not the eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain. In September, a team of Swiss neuroscientists reported that they could turn out-of-body experiences on and off by stimulating the part of the brain in which vision...
Fifty homegrown productions, including films like Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute and the upcoming Elizabeth sequel, The Golden Age, contributed $290 million. But the real boost came from outsiders, especially U.S. studios, which poured $1.12 billion into filming Bond and Potter as well as non-English creations using the country's locations, talent or technical know-how. That's the level of activity the industry might have expected after a bumper year like 2003 when Bridget Jones joined forces with Troy and Alexander to help generate $2.2 billion...
...Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata and Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously received Madama Butterfly this fall. Gelb has also hired Broadway directors ? Jack O'Brien, of Hairspray fame, and Bartlett Sher, who did The Light in the Piazza, to stage operas...
...Depending on whom you speak with these days, the technological advances brought by the digital age are either killing the magic of photography or unleashing unprecedented creativity-as former New York Times critic Vicki Goldberg recently noted, the medium is "reproducing faster than rabbits." But if anything, "Light Sensitive" captures an art form reconnecting with its original mystery: paper, chemicals, light. Such were the essential ingredients of the early?19th century camera-less process of photograms, and by casting everyday objects in a contemporary light, current practitioners such as Christl Berg, Anne Ferran and Penelope Davis seem to reveal...