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...Massino trial is the latest--and, the feds hope, final--chapter in a century-old soap opera that began in the early '30s with Luciano's anointing of Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno, then just 26, to rein in one of New York's warring crime gangs and sit on the newly formed Mafia Commission (Bonanno died in 2002 at 97). Bonanno's son Bill, 72, admits he ran the family for a brief, chaotic period in the '60s (true) and claims that he and his father were Mario Puzo's inspiration for Michael and Vito Corleone (debatable). He subscribes...
...real trick to their belovedness is that Joel and Ethan Coen go highbrow on lowbrow: opera parody mixes with stoner humor in The Big Lebowski, a cow explodes in the middle of a Depression-era adaptation of The Odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and quips about Renaissance music are juxtaposed with irritable-bowel syndrome in their latest, The Ladykillers, which opens this Friday. "We're not embarrassed to put in the cheapest gags if they make us laugh," says Joel, 49. "On the other hand, if something goes over somebody's head, we don't care...
...Pepi ’06, who portrays a bewitched girl and can also be seen in Harvard’s soap opera, Ivory Towers, said Hay is a “great director” and also praised his acting ability...
Perhaps because its stars must regularly don Viking helmets, opera seemed to be the last performing art in which talent still mattered more than looks. That was until London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became...
...Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker); and E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner and Swearengen's beaten-cur sycophant (William Sanderson, Newhart's Larry), and you have a typical--if dysfunctional--horse-opera cast...