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...theater's most hallowed ground, has of late been long on celebrity and short on serious theater. A parade of Hollywood stars with minimal acting chops have invaded Theaterland - among them Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, but most notoriously Madonna in the execrable Up For Grabs - many of them sellout performances in every sense of the phrase. After Matthew Perry (one of the Friends) began filling the Comedy Theatre with his lightweight turn in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these days. Who'd have guessed...
Harvard coach Katey Stone and her Minnesota-Duluth counterpart Shannon Miller looked through the stands of the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center on March 23 and saw a dream had come true. A sellout crowd of 5,167 had come to watch an NCAA women’s hockey championship game, and thousands more would be watching on television. When the two coaches met for a pregame parley, Miller uttered an appropriate challenge for the evening...
...Jeff Koons (both of whom Murakami counts as major influences) have spent as much time strategizing their careers, calibrating their output according to the laws of supply-and-demand?all the while keeping an eye on how the mandarins of culture perceive their mercantilist ways. (Is he a sellout? Is it art? Are such distinctions even relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty...
Marquardt’s timeout made for a climactic finish. The delay gave the sellout crowd of 400-plus time to gather at court No. 3 to cheer him on. Nguyen was not flustered by the momentary distraction and continued to use the energy of the crowd to pressure his opponent...
...record sellout crowd of 5,167 witnessed two evenly matched teams in a showcase of women’s college hockey at its highest level ever...