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...newest venture is the film adaptation of his monstrously successful Broadway comedy musical, “The Producers,” itself an adaptation of his directorial debut. Brooks’ Broadway production won the most Tony Awards in history, and the star pairing of Lane and Matthew Broderick shone brightly onstage. A film version with the original cast is sure to be pure comic gold, right? Well, kind of. The uninspired adaptation loses it charm because of the flat direction from Broadway choreographer/debut director Susan Stroman and over-the-top performances from its leads.The magic of the musical doesn?...
However, while haphazardly flipping through a copy of Rolling Stone a few weeks ago, a voice spoke to me. As two bright lights shone in my face, a higher power gave me my mission in strange tongues, which sounds, to an untrained ear, like the squealing wheels and crash...
...although he did score New England’s first touchdown with 2:21 remaining in the first quarter.“We just didn’t really live up to our end of the bargain there,” Brady said.San Diego’s Drew Brees shone throughout, however, going 19-of-24 for 248 yards and two touchdowns. Brees played the role to which Brady is accustomed, mixing in screens and dump-offs to pick apart a secondary thay was missing safety Rodney Harrison and cornerbacks Duane Starks and Tyrone Poole. Harrison, who suffered a knee...
...civil rights movement shone a spotlight on inequality and discrimination, Lincoln's image came in for a beating. The myth of Lincoln as the black man's best friend was hard to square with his own words, from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, that he had "no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races" and that "there is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living upon the footing of perfect equality." In a 1968 piece for Ebony, "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?", Lerone Bennett...
...against No. 17 Cornell, although the Crimson eventually lost 7-5. If the light of hope peeped through the clouds of a losing season then, it beamed in the team’s final game, a 13-9 victory over Brown in which the team’s rookies shone...