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...Quebec company--which began as a circus with no animals--has become the gold standard for live entertainment. Like a circus, Ką showcases jaw-dropping acrobatic feats, but it cradles them in outsize theatrical wizardry: a huge stage space with many scene changes and a theater designed to suit the show, with side balconies from which the performers can fly over the audience. Like a Broadway show, Ką has a plot, a dozen or more characters and a sonorous score. It blends these two forms and extends them with the company's determination to create something new under...
...last week in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., so began what is anticipated to be a six-month media extravaganza. Jackson himself got things rolling with a video, posted on his website, proclaiming his innocence. (He sent the same signal sartorially, wearing a white suit, far right, on his first day in court.) If convicted on all 10 counts, the Gloved One faces up to 24 years in prison. Can he beat it? Here's a Notebook rundown of what to expect. --By Jeffrey Ressner. With reporting by Matt Kettmann...
...lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power to converse with cats. Also present is Johnnie Walker (of whisky fame, in tails and top hat), who kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders (the fried-chicken guy, in white suit and string tie), who moonlights as a back-alley pimp and supernatural fixer. Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly...
Timing matters. Steven Spielberg's 1997 slave-revolt tale got shut out amid plagiarism charges. The suit was dropped, but not in time for ANTHONY HOPKINS or DJIMON HOUNSOU to take home a statue...
...durable beauty in you, Madame," purrs the smitten swine, to which Kwan Mei says, "Perhaps I'm as aged-looking as the Great Wall." No, she is fetching in her improbable gear. Anthony Chan observes: "Even as the rebel leader in the rice fields, Kwan Mei wears a silk suit with handwoven buttons...