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...Wachowskis, and production designer Owen Paterson (who's been with the brothers since The Matrix, and before that dreamed up the chromatic excesses of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) don't want to evoke feelings so much as visualize them. When young Speed first meets young Trixie, candy hearts and roses bloom around him, illuminating his innocent ardor. The color scheme of the Racer home evokes Pee-wee's Playhouse in its cartoon cheeriness, and the decor is pure '50s Populuxe. Even the choice of wallpaper - cheery flowers in the kitchen, a tangle of rectangles...
...married on a whim - and accidentally win three million dollars on a single turn at a slot machine. This inconveniences settlement of the divorce proceedings that shortly ensue, for a cranky judge (Dennis Miller) sentences them to six months "hard marriage," - complete with couples therapy presided over by Queen Latifah - to see if they can work things...
...back with the new LP “Hard Candy”—and this time she’s out for blood. Abandoning the purple onesie and disco ball, she has reinvented herself yet again, this time as M-Dolla: the prize-fighting urban pop queen. If the album cover is any indication, she’s back with a vengeance, determined to keep her competition...
...Madonna directly attacks her producers’ past sirens, singing, “She’ll never have what I have / She’s not me and she never will be.” It’s a cheeky kiss-off to anyone who thinks the Queen of Pop is ready to relinquish her crown. She even goes after her co-writer’s sound on “Miles Away,” the song that chronicles a couple’s attempt to stay together even with an ocean between them. With its dreamy...
...other performances over Arts First weekend, the production schedule is relaxed and relatively low-commitment. “It’s a pretty chill process,” Rich says. In the classic fairy tale chosen for this year’s production, a mother convinces a queen that her daughter possesses extraordinary spinning skills. The daughter, who is actually lazy and loathes spinning, is offered marriage to the prince as a reward for spinning an entire room full of flax in three days. The lazy daughter cheats, and as punishment for her deception, she is forbidden from ever...