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...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...
...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 Elyse." 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?...
...production are often done digitally, while more and more films are being shot on digital equipment. So why are we still watching movies the way we did 100 years ago? The movie-house revolution was supposed to start in 1999, when George Lucas released Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and set up special screenings to show how much better the film looked playing on a digital system. But few in the industry followed his lead, fearing that fast-advancing technology would make the equipment obsolete the moment it was taken out of the box. Nor could anyone decide...
...ends in the dénouement. Dramas are free to leave them unresolved, especially if the lack of resolution is truer to life, which is certainly the case in the instance of divorce. The final moments of “Squid” may feel amputated, but the phantom ache of the missing scenes is precisely the feeling with which the film should conclude. —Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...