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...While most cast members jumped at the chance to reprise the roles which they premiered, there are two notable exceptions. The role of Joanne, originally played by Fredi Walker, is now being played by Broadway veteran Tracie Thoms. Drug addict/stripper with a heart of gold Mimi Marquez is played by Rosario Dawson, who, while a well-known actress, is a musical theater novice. Dawson is arguably one of the biggest names in the production, but many were uncertain whether she could hold her own beside such a formidable Broadway lineup. Thoms certainly lives up to Walker’s performance...
Harvard Square Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. The Lighthouse P.D. James 2. On Beauty Zadie Smith 3. The Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5. The Sea John Banville 6. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami 7. Monologue of a Dog Wislawa Szymborska 8. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr...
...were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra Marquez/ Los Angeles, Mimi Murphy/ Rome, Sora Song/ New York and Cindy Waxer/ Toronto
...that if you are given an illegal order, it is your duty to disobey it." No matter what anyone else might call them, in their own minds, Hinzman, Anderson and their peers are still good soldiers, just following orders. --Reported by Steven Frank and Paul Gains/ Toronto and Sandra Marquez/ San Diego
...Tyrant's Novel was written, sagely, sinuously, under the spell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and their mad generalissimos. There is everywhere a whiff of Graham Greene, with his moral skirmishing in the gray areas. The current Iraq war is one of those. Keneally, who knows something about lies and hypocrisy, could have told you it would be. --By Richard Lacayo