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...musicals is challenging the notion that the genre exists so the mommy quadrant can drag the daddy quadrant out on date night. Opening over the next few weeks is Once, a scrappy, Irish guy-meets-girl yarn made for less than $200,000 and featuring Glen Hansard, the lead singer of the Dublin rock band The Frames as a busker/vacuum repairman trying to launch a recording career singing on street corners. In July comes Hairspray, with newcomer Nikki Blonsky, 18, and old-comers John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer (shout-out to Grease 2 fans!) in a cinematic take...
...MAKE SURE YOU'RE GONNA LOVE ME Even American Idol's Simon Cowell, whose chest cavity apparently developed without a heart inside, rooted for Jennifer Hudson's soulful singer Effie in last year's Dreamgirls. All good movie musicals give us a lovable character to invest in - in Once it's Hansard's tender, awkward busker, in Hairspray Blonsky's cheerful teen reformer and Travolta's well-intentioned big momma. Contrast these huggable characters with, say, 2005's Rent, which celebrates broke, dysfunctional pseudo bohemians who you wish would just shut...
...have won the Cold War, but we lost Eurovision.' TERRY WOGAN, British TV presenter, on Europe's annual Eurovision song contest. Serbian singer Marija Serifovic (pictured) won this year's May 12 competition in Helsinki due in large part, Wogan said, to the support of voters and judges from other Eastern European countries...
...Serbia, I won for all of you!" the 22-year-old singer proclaimed to the cheering crowd. "It's a new chapter for a new Serbia." If, indeed, there is a tonic for struggling nations to be derived from triumphing in this annual contest of camp and kitsch - won last year by a Finnish rock band in monster costumes - then few needed it as much as the Serbians did. Days before Saturday's Eurovision finals, the parliament chose the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic as its speaker. A divisive holdover from Serbia's tortured past, Nikolic had served...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, the ascending pop singer was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her gypsy ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring that she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or purported to expose her as a lesbian. In interviews, Serifovic has persistently declined to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...