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...Cabot Musical Theatre veterans, having participated in the Theatre’s past productions of “Grease” and “West Side Story.” “I started off as a hoodlum in West Side Story, and now I play the male lead. It’s been a tremendous experience,” Li says. The Cabot production is the cast’s first exposure to “How to Succeed.” “We had our own vision, and we weren’t constrained...
...Democratic convention in August, the whole script needs a rewrite. If we’ve learned anything from films like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” it’s that audiences will watch any male-female relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat an apocalyptic common enemy. Even if the Clinton/Obama ‘dream ticket’ is nothing more than a pundit?...
...coffee shop scene, the male protagonist, Joe, is sounding out a Coca-Cola jingle he wrote recently when a siren drowns out his conversation with his friend Alli. The camera leaves the two actors and follows the speeding ambulance through the window, though their voices continue in the background. The camera cuts back to Alli, who says, “I think someone just died hearing your jingle.” The moment—both the ambulance passing and the actor’s response—was completely improvised...
...barely manage to mumble my own name before my companion moves briskly along and I find myself being asked what I do for a living. All around me are similar smiling faces and heads nodding attentively in synch. Eventually the conversations take on a more relaxed tone, until a male voice blurts out, "Are you single? May I have your number?" Not exactly a professional business query, but it gets full marks for spontaneity and confidence...
...white-male preserve of TV anchoring may get yet white-maler. Katie Couric, whose CBS Evening News remains in deep third place, reportedly may leave after the presidential Inauguration or sooner. Should Hillary pull the election out, the first female President could be sworn in just in time to say goodbye to the first solo female anchor...