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...Cloud to devote herself to rigorous technical training at Ruth Williams Dance Studio in Harlem, where she took lessons in ballet, tap, and body percussion from teachers who had danced with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem.While the academic rigor of her high school, Horace Mann, didn’t allow her time to continue her technical training, Cloud became very involved with her school’s language program, which enabled her to perform in diverse cultural shows. Cloud says that she experimented with “every dance style, from Irish step, to traditional...
...FOLDERS Merlin Mann's program, ostensibly about personal productivity, is entertaining and informative. Listen first to the episode titled "How to Leave a Voice Mail Message...
...here what he wants to do when he grows up, and he'll say he wants to sail on Shosholoza. "They've proved that they have the passion and the inspiration to take on such a tough challenge," says Alinghi's helmsman and sports director Jochen Schümann, who was in Cape Town recently to attend a Shosholoza charity auction. "It's an open question how far they will get." For many of South Africa's young sailors, blazing a trail for the next multiracial generation of sailors is victory in itself...
WHAT'S NEW Miami, for starters. Style-conscious director Michael Mann, who executive-produced Vice for TV, took the original show's atmospherics from a provincial Miami that hid its grit under pink stucco. Now it's a boomtown, flush with international cash and bristling with glassy towers. The crime scene in '80s Miami, Mann says, "was just small-town cocaine cowboys. Now, everything seems to have a couple of zeroes added to the end of it." Gone too are the signature pastels. As for the substance, the director insisted on an R rating, allowing the movie to show...
...than Don Johnson's stubble. Hurricanes closed the set three times, as did an incident in the Dominican Republic involving an off-duty cop who wanted to get on-set and a spot of gunfire; in December, Farrell had to be treated for exhaustion and dependency on prescription medication. Mann, a notoriously meticulous director, has pulled off tough, big-star productions before (Heat, Ali). But movie audiences have tended to like their TV remakes campy (Charlie's Angels, Mr. & Mrs. Smith), and Mann takes Vice, the movie, dead seriously. "I hope the movie will surprise people familiar with the show...