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...Meeting my husband (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, author of "The Kentucky Cycle." So much for Miss Manners...
...Death Reel I could watch hours of award show death reels. I love the awkward applause for the big deaths, and the silence for the obscure ones. This year?s show had some high quality deaths-Shirley Horn, Robert Moog, Wilson Pickett, Eugene Record of Chi-Lites and Luther Vandross-and the audience came through with socially inapropriate clapping for their favorite folk in the great beyond...
...music started and all hell broke loose. The Grammy producers really enjoy "spontaneous" moments, and despite years of evidence, they believe nothing provides more of them than star-filled medleys. What we learned is that Joss Stone, John Legend, Fantasia, Maroon 5, Ciara, Will.i.am, Steve Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph all have one thing in common-they can butcher Sly Stone songs beyond recognition. But at least they tried, as opposed to super duper secret guest star Sly Stone, who emerged with a platinum mohwak, strode to the keyboard, played around for a minute or two and then promptly...
...While her interpretation of the role is skillful, it is wholly inappropriate for this film. Her seriousness jars with the farcical acting of her co-stars. There is no place for depression in the frivolous romp that the film claims to be. Additionally, two of the other lead characters, Robert Windemere (Mark Umbers, “The Merchant of Venice”) and the wonderfully named Lord Darlington (Stephen Cambell Moore, “Bright Young Things”), are so instantly forgettable that it is lucky that few of the important plot twists lie in their hands. The movie...
Zimbabwean people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock...