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...this point, you may be wanting to hurl the paper across the room in disgust,or, even better, be ready to pick up your pen andwrite an irritated letter about how this criticcan't appreciate wholesome musical theater. Tothat, I ask this question--what is the point ofmusical theater? If you believe it is simply toentertain, to create pretty images onstage andapplaud special effects without even thinking ofthe word "art," then to you I apologize. In thatcase, this is your show; watch it and enjoy it.But if you, like me, want to believe that even thetraditionally substanceless genre of musicaltheater...
PARIS: You'd think France's World Cup soccer exploits would whip the country's right-wing nationalist politicians into a patriotic frenzy -- instead, it leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know...
...soccer team has done more to promote racial tolerance in France, and pride and a sense of belonging among its immigrant population, than anything the government could ever have done," says Sancton. So whether or not they beat Brazil in Sunday's final, they've already trounced Le Pen...
...left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack, found so much material there that he's now working on a film focusing on one of the inmates. He's also got a whole new crew of pen pals. "I'll ask one of them a question, and two weeks later I'll get a 10-page handwritten letter about it. They've been thinking about nothing else," he says. "It's like having your own personal think tank...
...more than just movies and television and news. Adolescent curiosity about sex is fed by a pandemic openness about it--in the schoolyard, on the bus, at home when no adult is watching. Just eavesdrop at the mall one afternoon, and you'll hear enough pubescent sexcapades to pen the next few episodes of Dawson's Creek, the most explicit show on teen sexuality, on the WB network. Parents, always the last to keep up, are now almost totally pre-empted. Chris (not his real name), 13, says his parents talked to him about sex when...