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Heymann said Cox never went out of his way to be a “showman,” not even with the high-profile Watergate proceedings...
Allen would feel at home in Adelaide right now. If the late Australian showman were still shaking his maracas, he'd most likely head for Universal Playground, the hugely popular outdoor festival club. After problems with the plumbing, the joint is now jumping. The same could be said of Page's festival, which runs through March 14. When he inherited it from Californian opera director Peter Sellars, the biennial event was not in good shape. Sellars had tried to explode the traditional multi-arts model by pouring more money into film and grassroots programs. But his quest for a communal...
...wasn't an easy convert to hypnobirthing. For a start, hypnosis made me think of a traveling showman inducing an audience member to dance like a chicken. On top of that, my mother, her mother, every mother I'd ever met had drummed into me that childbirth was agony. Pain-free labor? Yeah, right. But my husband Alex--a doctor who sniggered every time my prenatal-yoga video urged me to open up like a lotus blossom--was hypnobirthing's unlikely champion...
...cricket can be brutally efficient in judging its players across the years. There?s usually no need to look beyond the weight of runs scored and wickets taken to assess a player?s proper place in the cricketing pantheon. But averages speak of substance rather than style. A talented showman and a dour plodder can be mediocrities on the numbers grid, although the first might have soared as often as he flopped, while the second never got off the ground. David Hookes, who died on Jan. 19, was not a cricket legend on traditional measures. After all, Hookes played...
...Broadway followed, as did international tours and more than 25 major awards. Next came Cinderella, set in the London Blitz, and Car Man, a film noir treatment of Bizet's classic. Both had major West End runs. But the critics were not entirely impressed; many dismissed Bourne as a showman rather than a dance man, a label that has stuck. The Mail on Sunday has called him "both the best and the worst thing to have happened to British dance in the past 20 years." Rupert Christiansen, a critic for the Daily Telegraph, complains that Bourne has "dumbed down...