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...woman who didn't make her college musical just may play a pivotal role in reviving the whole movie-musical genre. Zellweger stars in Chicago, a big-screen version of the Broadway hit that opens Dec. 27 and is already generating big-time buzz. With last year's hit Moulin Rouge still on Hollywood's mind and Chicago about to break, the studios are gearing up for a new era of movie musicals. Being talked about is a new screen version of Guys and Dolls, Grease 3, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and a big-screen version...
Various writers tried unsuccessfully to adapt Chicago for the screen, and Hytner eventually dropped out. Madonna also moved on, and Chicago languished until 2000, when Rob Marshall--a former Broadway choreographer who had directed Annie on television--came up with a new concept. The show would be reshaped so that all the musical numbers would 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...
...couple of real-life celebrity murderesses in the 1920s--was first fictionalized in a 1926 Broadway play, which became a silent movie in 1927, then a film starring Ginger Rogers in 1942. The current Broadway revival of the musical recently celebrated its 2,500th performance. This new big-screen version of Chicago restores the old routine of hit Broadway musicals becoming Hollywood movies. In recent years Broadway has taken from Hollywood without giving back, turning movies like The Producers and Hairspray into splashy hit shows. By finally making its way back to the screen, Chicago helps even the score...
...mightier than the sword, but these days it's facing some stiff competition from the personal computer. That's why Logitech created the IO Personal Digital Pen ($199), a new, cyborganic writing implement that bridges the otherwise mutually exclusive worlds of screen and paper. Here's how it works: the IO writes like an ordinary ballpoint pen, but it contains a computer chip that records and remembers every scribble. When you're through writing, the IO downloads your jottings to your PC, where you can either save them as pictures or use handwriting-recognition software to convert them to text...
...developmental psychologist Sharon Heller serious about sensory defensive (SD) disorder [HEALTH, Nov. 25]? She postulates that a person who finds tickling clothes tags irritating, blinking icons on a computer screen distracting and car alarms disturbing is suffering from this so-called condition. With all due respect, I advise her to get out of the house more often. For thousands of years, humans have naturally developed both positive and negative responses to varied stimuli. I hope Heller will revisit her theory and relabel this disorder as a perfectly normal (PN) condition. Mike Randall Oakville...