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...Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...dismissed as too injury prone and disinterested since she and her sister Venus dominated the game earlier in the decade and written off as plain washed up after losing to ... Bammer-- can now ponder the preposterous. A Grand Slam. Williams took the Australian title, crushing the sport's hottest star, Russian-born, American-bred Maria Sharapova, in the final, 6-1, 6-2. She followed that up with another impressive hard-court title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, again dismantling Sharapova, 1 and 1, en route to beating the world's current top-ranked player, Justine Henin...
...Festival Jury that awards the Palme d'Or on closing night (a week from Sunday). And the Festival likes Wong enough to have chosen his new film, My Blueberry Nights, as the opening night film at a black-tie ceremony later this evening. He'll be there with his star, Norah Jones, the pop singer making her acting debut in his first American movie - a very mixed bag, with some fine scenes and characters to enliven a mostly disappointing endeavor...
...day—with season-ending IRA National Championships near on the horizon—but for this golden novice boat, yesterday was its last day on the river. Yet, after an undefeated season, capped by its gold-medal performance yesterday, the future for the members of this all-star boat appears very bright. “Especially as a senior, looking at the program as a whole, it is exciting to know we have that kind of depth and strength,” said senior lightweight captain Jennifer Chung. “They’re going...
...Although Ponomarenko’s Giselle is the star of the ballet as a whole, both Rykine’s Prince Albrecht and Combes’ Myrtha manage to outdance her in Act II. Ponomarenko’s greatest accomplishment in this act is to take the recitatives of Adam’s score and convert them into recitatives of her own movement. It is beautiful to see how the changing intonations of the music are embodied in the dance...