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...with young people. It is a Boston University student production of "The Marriage of Figaro," done in Italian, "Le Nozze de Figaro," the full four acts, uncut, lasting almost four hours. It seems like half an hour. The lovely production could be moved to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera without much apology or revision...
...World Championship in Canada, where skating officials hinted to Shen and Zhao's coach that their 15th-place finish might have had something to do with their musical choice?Yellow River, a traditional Chinese tune. The officials also suggested the pair's choreography, which drew inspiration from Peking opera, was too jerky for Western tastes. And the duo lacked the sexual chemistry that judges love. "We learned quickly that you have to please the judges with something they find familiar," says the duo's coach Yao Bin. "What they know is Western music and style...
...version of how screwed up they all are. The telling is led by Viola, the know-it-all matriarch and glue who holds her estranged husband Cecil and four far-flung children together. Their heavy load--incest, substance abuse, poverty, infidelity, death--makes this a soap opera, but it is leavened with a big dollop of sass...
...world, Ritchie is Madonna's new husband. But cinephiles know him as the creator of try-anything violent crime farces. A couple dozen hard guys plot stupid heists, shout droll obscenities and, for punctuation, kill people. Imagine the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera, only everybody's packing. Comic congestion is Ritchie's game; he's like a Preston Sturges who's done time...
...passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal." He thanked us for all the things he normally takes full credit for. But the American people mostly watched, and rooted for either the man or his enemies. Clinton turned politics into a the best soap opera in town, and when George W. Bush is done restoring all the honor and dignity the Oval Office has arguably lost these past two terms, the American people may well have nodded off. Clinton is one tough act to follow...