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...Producers" was the musical theater's last megahit. The Nathan Lane starrer, which opened in April 2001, was also the first show in ages to break the unwritten 20-year rule for Broadway shows: be dramatic, tragic if possible, and always brown. Mel Brooks, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto from his fondly-recalled old film, reminded theatergoers that there used to be something, a very agreeable thing, called "musical comedy" - emphasis on the comedy. Audiences devoured "The Producers" like the first spoonful of chocolate sundae after Yom Kippur. If the show wasn't quite the laugh...
...This year a special 10-film section was devoted to South Korea's flourishing film industry. A few cinematic Seoul-mates were disappointed that the list did not include Korea's megahit romantic comedy My Sassy Girl. But the copious selection nonetheless offered a fair overview of the country's artier auteurs?from Lee Chang Dong's long-fuse, then combustive Oasis (it won the Best Director prize at this month's Venice Film Festival) to Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat, which, while it does not live up to its beguiling title, paints a quirky fresco...
DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian actor who appeared in some 250 films over 60 years; in Bombay. A law school graduate, Kumar rose to stardom in the megahit Achhut Kanya (1936) playing a young Brahmin who falls in love with a low-caste woman...
...case, Jang is becoming uncomfortable with his drop-dead good looks. With his role in the megahit Friends, he is finally shedding his pretty-boy image, playing a gang boss in a tough port town. But it was the face that got him into acting, of course. On his way to and from school, reps for advertising and modeling agencies, who scour the streets for fresh faces, repeatedly handed him their business cards. His parents disapproved, urging him to concentrate on his studies. But he phoned one of the agencies and ended up doing a soap commercial. "Only my body...
...ultimate purveyor of armchair-adventure shopping. His floridly written catalog pulled in a cult following--and $75 million a year in sales--by hawking evocative clothing, furniture and collectibles to upscale shoppers. Peterman outfitted Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey and got a priceless p.r. boost when the TV megahit Seinfeld parodied him on its show...