Word: songfulness
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...Clark is flirtatious and embarrassed as she meets Ben (whom she's always loved) after all these years. "In Buddy's Eyes" is an expression of the love she tries to feel for her husband. Her Loveland number, "Losing My Mind," may sound like a standard, plangent torch song ("You said you loved me / Or were you just being kind? / Or am I losing my mind?"). But Clark's rendition makes it clear Sally is so desperate and deluded, she is near madness; she is losing her mind. Clark lifted this Follies into the stratosphere of indelible Broadway productions...
...After the banquet of feelings in Follies, the Encores! version of the 1932 Face the Music was a minty palate-cleanser. A topical revue by the young Moss Hart (then 27) and the veteran Irving Berlin (43; he'd live to 101), it has one hit song, "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," and lots of impudent attitude, which the revival nicely preserved under John Rando's direction. An expert cast led by Encores! stalwarts Judy Kaye and Walter Bobbie found the fun of bankrupt millionaires and amiably venal cops improbably involved in putting on a Broadway show...
...Chenoweth gets excellent support from the two comic leads: the giant, sweetly Shrek-like Chamberlin and the smaller Christopher Fitzgerald, who makes me think of Sean Penn reconfigured as a tummeling song-and-dance man. I also liked the unaffected geniality of Shonn Wiley and was dazzled to submission by Kendrick Jones, tap-dancer supreme and a handsome charmer, if I may say, to boot...
...character crack that disables the digital lock that prevents HD-DVDs from being copied--dangerous for the $24 billion DVD industry. After a website posted the code in February, lawyers demanded its removal. The online reaction then boiled over: the crack suddenly popped up everywhere. A song has even appeared on YouTube with the code as its lyrics...
...kids. What parent today wants to raise an entitled prince or a helpless damsel? Seeing Snow White turn from cream puff into kick-ass fury in Shrek the Third--launching an army of bluebirds and bunnies at the bad guys to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song--is more than a brilliant sight gag. It's a relief to parents of girls, with Disney's princess legacy in their rearview mirrors and Bratz dolls and Britney up ahead. It goes hand in hand with a vast genre of empowered-princess books (Princess Smartypants, The Princess Knight) for parents...