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...expanding into youth-targeted productions like Def Poetry Jam and a La Boheme from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. But it also repeatedly reached back to baby-boomer-and-beyond icons (nostalgic, perhaps, for a time when you could get people to see an original Broadway show). It revived Oklahoma! and Into the Woods and Flower Drum Song. It adapted movies: Hairspray (John Waters' movie about early-'60s Baltimore), The Graduate, Marty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? It even got choreographer Twyla Tharp, for Movin' Out, to become the first person to hold the phrases Billy Joel and dance...
...knows a whole lot more than you do about old water-pumping windmills. When she started work on her sly new novel, That Old Ace in the Hole (Scribner; 384 pages), she thought it would center on windmills and the people who work on them in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. "For years I've drifted through there on the way to other places," she says in her agreeably settled but sometimes impish voice. "There were these dilapidated places with windmills facedown in the yard and a general air of dishevelment. Or you'd see huge, golden, grassy fields...
...Tennessee Senator was very recently considered a dark horse, his bid overshadowed by more established contenders like Mitch McConnell and Don Nickles. Late Thursday he officially declared his intention to stand for majority leader, and within hours, numerous Republican leaders, including McConnell, Virginia's John Warner and Oklahoma's James Inhofe, threw their support behind the second-term Senator. The 51 GOP senators will meet January 6th to elect a new leader by secret ballot...
...Nickles The most vocal support for Lott's departure has come from Oklahoma's Nickles, who is also considered his most likely replacement. In the week after Lott's disastrous comments became headlines, the Senate's second in command has made two things clear: one, he believes that Lott should be supplanted; and two, that there is a need for stronger (read: more conservative) GOP leadership in the Senate. "There are several outstanding senators who are more than capable of effective leadership and I hope we have an opportunity to choose," Nickles announced last weekend. Nickles, who has acted...
...Seminoles' multiple casinos generated $216 million in profits last year, and each tribe member collected $35,000 in casino dividends. During the same six years, the health service spent an annual average of just $470 on each of the 52,000 members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, whose tiny casinos do little more than break even...