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...theater ritual: the customers settle into their seats just before curtain time and hear a disembodied voice that warns members of the audience not to take photographs ... or phone calls. At the Neil Simon Theatre on New York's 52nd Street, as folks settle in to see the sassy, savvy, snazzy new Broadway musical "Hairspray," the announcer has a gentler way of telling the crowd to behave. He notes that the show "takes place in 1962, a time before there were cellular phones and beepers...
...relatively intimate size of the Neil Simon, "Hairspray" would be hitting the million-dollar mark. But don't fret for the show's backers. The cast has no above-the-title names - the most prominent figure is Harvey Fierstein, the bullfrog-voiced actor who goes into drag to play the heroine's oversize mother, and whose previous Broadway performance (in his 1987 comedy "Safe Sex") lasted all of one week - so ticket sales aren't siphoned into star salaries. And the show is peddling CDs, T shirts and geegaws galore. At Bloomingdale's, in its 59th Street store and other...
...Eastern nation, a military coterie plans a devastating sneak attack on U.S. soil. If Martin Cruz Smith's suspenseful, surprisingly lyrical new novel were set in Afghanistan, it would have been called September 10. Instead we're in Japan, the year is 1941, and the book is December 6 (Simon & Schuster; 339 pages)--the day before Pearl Harbor...
...written with Deitch's brother, Simon, "Boulevard" focuses on Ted Mishkin, a talented animator whose gifts can never quite overcome his curse. His curse is Waldo, a mischievous cat who walks on his hind legs. Waldo may be a delusion or he may be real, but only Ted can see him. As Mishkin describes him, "he's all charm and cute on the outside, but inside he's pure devil." In a complex play on the concept of the Muse, Waldo inspires Ted to create a like-named cartoon character for the animation studio his brother Al runs. While "Waldo...
...sales assistant in downtown Wilmington, says, "The bottom line is, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have to worry about the jump-out squads." Mills, who believes he was targeted because of his race and address, might beg to disagree. --With reporting by Simon Crittle/Wilmington