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People were surprised by your singing abilities in Moulin Rouge. Would you ever consider a singing career...
...Moulin Rouge-like music hall with ornate moldings and tapestries, though beautiful, presents a stark contrast to the set for “Stomp.” Quite overwhelming at first, it consists of worn and dented street signs, trash cans, construction tools, and metal siding flung across the stage or hung on a tall fence-like rack. It has a rough, rugged feel to it that complements the posh theatre surrounding it. The stage is topped off with loads of sand scattered across the floor. And so the stage is set. Lights rise. Action...
...cultural traditions rooted in the seventh day being one of rest. They warn that family gatherings, leisure activities and even church attendance will suffer greatly as people are forced to don the dominical yoke of labor. Where will the next Renoir get his inspiration for another Bal du Moulin de la Galette? What would Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte be without the Sunday bit? And how to defend the colors against the neighborhood rival if your goalkeeper and best center forward are down at the mall selling garden furniture...
...Hoping to zazz up what has been a predictable show with precipitously declining ratings in the U.S. in recent years, the Academy gave the job to producers Bill Condon and Larry Mark, the men behind the Oscar-winning movie Dreamgirls. They commissioned Aussie director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) to confect an elaborate production number proclaiming the Musical Is Back. They also trotted out a retinue of Oscar-winning royalty - Sophia Loren, Shirley MacLaine, Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins - to give individual tributes to the nominees in the acting categories; the ploy was sweet at first but ultimately laborious...
...assimilate” mixed children of Aboriginals and whites as well as a climactic raid on Darwin by the Japanese.Clearly, “Australia” is an ambitious movie, and it soars and stirs when operating on a grand scale. Luhrmann, whose past credits include “Moulin Rouge” and “Romeo + Juliet,” delivers beautiful, jaw-dropping imagery that seems to spill forth from the screen. A stampede of a thousand cattle rushing towards the edge of a cliff, a desert transformed into a paradise, a city torn apart by bombing?...