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...funeral. According to Crowe, the genesis of the movie was “the elixir of Kentucky, the feeling that’s in the air there.” To create that authentic bluegrass vibe, Crowe even tapped Paula Deen—the Food Network’s maven of fried hoecakes—to play protagonist Orlando Bloom’s aunt. “She could cook and hug and talk and do everything at the same time,” Crowe says, floored by her presence in the kitchen. It’s these sorts...
...illusions about undergraduate alcohol consumption, and he doesn’t expect to steer students down a road of abstinence. Information would be his weapon of choice, and in the months since his installment, he has been aggressively spreading his neon-colored freebies around campus like a marketing maven...
...Instead of a tired alley, [Palmer Street] will become a really terrific corridor,” said John DiGiovanni, a Square real estate maven whose company owns the Garage, and an investor in the Palmer Street project...
...more aptly designed, though even the show’s script includes references that poke fun at the outrageousness of HPT costumes, which tend to be designed according to stereotypes. Indeed, at one point in the show, Gay Caballero tells his partner-in-crime, an Asian railroad maven named Ho Down, that she looks “like a cocktail waitress for the Viet Cong.” She responds equally critically, commenting that he looks “like a rainbow collapsed on a naked man.” Set designs, too, are numerous and help...
...living room or a mall or asleep, his face would radiate a purring contentment. I haven?t met the man, but I know a few people who know him, and they say, unbidden, that he is The Nicest Guy in the World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious in person as he is imposing on stage. So his performance at the Regency isn?t method acting, apparently. It?s just an unfurling of his natural charm...