Word: phantom
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...come off as a bit too noble for the movie's good. As both the product of violence and its perpetrator, he should be doubly twisted. "What was done to me was monstrous!" V snarls. "And they created a monster," Evey replies. But if V plays as a Phantom of the Opera monster, a Beauty and the Beast monster, a monster with a sweet, sad center, he becomes less than he should be: a mere action hero. Maybe that's a lot of nuance to ask of an action movie, but terrorism is a subject that demands nothing less. Give...
...Number of performances of Phantom of the Opera through Jan. 9, when it overtook Cats as the longest-running show ever on Broadway...
...million People who have seen Phantom worldwide since its 1988 premiere...
...Numbers 7,486 Performances of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera as of last week, making it the longest-running Broadway show of all time...
...nearly as much public outrage as have the rioters. French President Jacques Chirac, who was re-elected in 2002 in part on his promise to address the problem of "insecurity," especially in the banlieues, or suburbs, remained astoundingly absent as Paris burned. The weekly Nouvel Observateur called him the "phantom of the Elysée." The riots had raged for more than a week before he made a brief, uninspiring call for calm on Nov. 6, then spoke of the troubles again in a press conference on Nov. 10. Chirac's aides insisted that it was he who encouraged his prot?...