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...adaptation of the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy, is a typical romantic comedy of the hey-gang-let’s-put-on-a-show genre. Although it was written in 1992, the musical goes out of its way to be an old-fashioned conventional lovefest. The plot concerns Bobby Child, a New York banking scion who just wants to dance. Sent by his mother to Dead Rock, Nev. to foreclose on a theater, he falls in love with both the building and the owner’s daughter, Polly, who will have nothing to do with him as soon...
...Hedda’ Fueled by Destruction,” April 26). I would like to inform everyone that both the production of Hedda Gabler and, crucially, Hedda herself were as good as Soskin’s review was ill-conceived. I will not go over the excellent plot of the play itself; instead I would like to present an unmitigated rejection of Soskin’s review of the performance of Rebecca J. Levy ’06. Levy plays Hedda herself, the central character of the show and the figure around which the entire play revolves. Soskin criticizes Levy...
Mike McCall tends just a small garden on his quarter-acre plot outside Tampa, Fla. But he owns the Hummer of all yard machines, what he calls a lawn mower on steroids. Cradled in the plush, high-backed seat of his John Deere X595, McCall, 34, manicures his lawn in a quick 20 minutes, smoking a cigar while he cuts the grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There...
...Indian milieu. That's Marigold, the story of an American starlet, stranded in India, who works in a Bombay movie to get airfare home and falls for her Indian leading man. Bollywood is not the genre here; it's just the backdrop for a fish-out-of-water plot. Says Steve Gilula of Fox Searchlight, which distributed the breakout hit Bend It Like Beckham: "American popular culture is good at absorbing influences from around the world. But we embrace the elements, not the complete form. We have borrowed from parts of the culture and integrated it into ours...
...appeals court in Richmond, Va. The appeals panel, overturning a lower-court ruling, also said Moussaoui could have access to information from three al-Qaeda prisoners who may be able to provide evidence in his defense. Moussaoui has denied that he was part of the Sept. 11 plot...