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Poking fun at corny old musicals is such a corny old device by now that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does...
...LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE A feared IRA terrorist loses his cat. Mayhem ensues. In his latest take on the casual perversity of the rural Irish character, Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West) comes closer to self-parody than is probably advisable, as the body count (well, body-part count) exceeds that of all his other plays put together. Still, it's a bravura black comedy that shows off one of the most original and seductive voices in theater today...
...eight artists selected, each embodying a different region of Aboriginal culture (see map). With ambitions far outstripping its $A1.4 million budget, the Australian Indigenous Art Commission was to re-imagine Aboriginal art 20,000 km from its source. "The result," says MQB's chairman and managing director St?phane Martin, "will be one of the major displays of Australian art outside of your country...
...refused one or two cases for houses that seem-ed rather unsuitable places for them to be," says Edmund Vestey, 73, adding that such a "wonderful, wild wilderness" is rare, and "it's greater and more important than any of us." That's not how local entrepreneurs see it. Martin Shairp, 26, a merchant navy officer, plans to return home to open an adventure tourism hostel. "Land reform is fantastic. For the past 50 years, the young have always left the Highlands," he says. "Mine is the first generation who are seriously thinking of going back. We don't want...
...learned to do so under the stewardship of Arsène Wenger, its urbane French manager. Both combined their exciting international style with a heavy dose of localism. Arsenal coupled the Frenchman Thierry Henry and Dutch genius Dennis Bergkamp with an English-dominated back line - once, Tony Adams and Martin Keown, now Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole. Barcelona fields true Catalan heroes such as Carles Puyol. I adore Arsenal too much to concoct reasons to turn against them for the sake of a match. But Barça is nearer and dearer to my heart, ever so slightly. My love...