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...show.The opening medley lacked the oomph that Expressions is known for, but the engine finally kicked into gear with “Fierce,” a muscular number choreographed by Michaud. Wearing top hats, eye makeup, ripped shirts, and dance pants, the female performers were an uncommon sight but undoubtedly left the impression of being “dangerous,” just like the similarly-titled Michael Jackson song that accompanied the dance. The dancers’ bodies cleaved through the air at sharp angles as if preparing for combat, which made the musical transition to Kanye?...
...house afire - cover stories, features, business news, plane crashes, you name it. But in middle of the '99 season the managing editor pulled me aside for a little talk. I knew what was coming. "Your story starts are down," he said. "And your cliché count is out of sight. " I reminded the boss that I had led the league in snappy adjectives the year before. And early in the '99 season I'd hurt my right index finger trying desperately to pound out a deadline piece on the Super Bowl. I was playing hurt. But you know how managers...
...Kiebdaj said she lost her sight legally when she was about 5 years old. Surgery on the cataracts she was born with led to glaucoma, and her eyes developed scar tissue. She can still make out shapes and movement, but is unable to read...
...Negotiations Chair Gil Cates. "The WGA-AMPTP impasse has cost the jobs of tens of thousands of entertainment-industry workers, including many of our own members, and more lose their jobs every day the strike continues. With so much at stake and no end to the standoff in sight, we can no longer abdicate our responsibility to our own members." Hollywood unions have a history of piggybacking on each other's contracts. If the directors and the AMPTP are able to agree on a new media compensation formula, the WGA leadership would have a hard time convincing its members...
...about the Korean War and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - was his first to be set outside China. A Free Life is the first to be set in his adopted home, and he deftly conjures an American landscape of rolling, wide-open spaces spangled by brawny, glimmering rivers ("This sight beats the Yangtze," Pingping gushes, while she gazes at the "mighty and vast" Hudson, just outside New York City). There are also decent depictions of bland, sleepy McSuburbs like Lilburn, Ga. - a typical bedroom community of electricians, engineers, stucco churches and donut shops near Atlanta, where the family eventually moves...