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...take place as elaborate vaudeville routines in the dreamy imagination of Roxie. "The hardest part about musicals is that scary moment when characters start to sing," says Marshall, who recruited screenwriter Bill Condon (Oscar winner for 1998's Gods and Monsters) to write the script. As the prison matron (Queen Latifah) speaks, Roxie's eyes begin to dance; suddenly, Latifah metamorphoses into a full-bodied chanteuse whose rendition of When You're Good to Mama brings down the house. When Roxie's husband (John C. Reilly) takes the blame for her crime, Roxie's warm thoughts become a love song...
...film has lots of terrific turns to support its leading ladies: from Richard Gere, as the sexy weasel lawyer; from Queen Latifah, exuding the wry sizzle of a star who doesn't mind that Hollywood has yet to figure out how to use her; and, we almost forgot, from John C. Reilly--another in his sad gallery of losers not even daring to hope for sympathy...
...dining at its finest. And the sumptuousness doesn't stop at the kitchen door. For those who want to eat like royalty, the Maharajah menu?one of three set meals?offers a generous selection of delectable northern Indian dishes, including saffron-flavored fish and crispy fried Punjabi samosas. Thai Queen Sirikit has dined there "not once, not twice, but no less than three times," whispers the manager. A three-course set menu costs $20 per person. Call (662) 261 7100 for reservations...
...display lays subcontinental claim to the development of flush-toilet technology?first utilized in 2500 BC in Mohenjo-daro, in now modern-day Pakistan. Upon the ancient city's collapse, however, such innovation became lost in the bowels of time, only to be implemented again in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who had a very simple one installed in her London home...
Marcus met his drama-queen Harvard boyfriend in a club in Boston when Marcus was still a student at a different New England college. When the two went back to their hometowns for the summer, Marcus says intense infatuation made it hard for him to be apart from his new beau. “I was pretty much immediately enraptured with him,” Marcus says. “I went to visit him three times in the summer, and one time I even drove my parents’ car 12 hours just to see him. My parents didn?...