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...make her whole ("Nobody is complete - we all need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere: in the form of a swan; shining erotically in her lover's skin; serving coffee in Hannah's nightmares. And even though Kennedy was raised a Methodist and is now a Quaker, there's no evangelism here. God is in Paradise to do literature's work: to throw light on why we do what...
...must also imagine that sometime in winter it will order as a replacement some reality show that, if someone told you today that it were airing, you would think was too sick to be imaginable, but which will by then seem just slightly "edgy." (Did I mention "The Swan" is back next fall...
...still the closest thing to an old-fashioned broadcast network we have: family sitcoms, "60 Minutes," sports and police procedurals - old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes, missionary-position TV. There are a few well-produced reality shows on CBS now, yes, but no "Extreme Makeover," no "The Swan." If anybody is going to get plastic surgery at CBS, it'll be the actors and actresses, off-camera, like God intended...
...Spain's Costa Brava. Next year alone, he has projects in Denver, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London and, of course, New York. But first he has another big premiere coming up on June 4, for Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Ballet, and it's a daunting one: a new version of Swan Lake. The production sounds like typical Wheeldon. The traditionalist in him is embracing the work's essence as a "grand, epic fantasy, the Lord of the Rings of its day." At the same time, the innovator has, he says, found ways to retell the story that make it "beautiful, sleek...
...have also returned to heavy airplay on radio and MTV. Despite several years of legal squabbling and failed solo efforts, the Backstreet Boys—no joke—are reportedly heading to the studio to record another album. The album may flop worse than Ruben Studdard attempting a swan dive, but if it doesn’t, you read about it here first. More surprising and significant is the return of a number of other past music stars to the headlines and cultural legitimacy. In the first half of 2004, high-profile records have been and will be released...