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...sign language for all his dialogue--and his songs too--while another actor, perched at the edge of the stage, supplies his voice. His drunken Pap is actually two scraggly, bearded actors, one hearing and one deaf, who play off each other in clever ways (when one takes a swig from a jug of moonshine, the other wipes his mouth). The rest of the cast of Big River, a Broadway revival of the 1985 Tony-winning musical based on Mark Twain's novel, is a mix of deaf and hearing actors--the most ambitious attempt yet to bring deaf actors...
POLICE CUSTODY "Look at that view," marvels Sombat Panarong. We're at his Umphang Hill Resort, tel: (66-55) 5610630, peering at the river in the late afternoon mist. "This was something worth fighting for," he says, taking a deep swig of his Scotch and ice. The police captain turned hotelier knows a thing or two about fighting?his previous career was spent battling communist guerrillas who once roved the hills fomenting revolution. His stories lend color to a stay at this cheap and cheerful resort, with its 54 bracingly basic rooms. "Some people say there are still guerrillas...
...Curtis feigns being a frustrated husband seeking counseling). Now as then, the two leads must run the gamut of passion, rancor and against-their-wills romance--all in glam Manhattan penthouses (Barbara's digs were inspired by the How to Marry a Millionaire set), where the not-quite lovers swig martinis to the underscoring of wisecracking trombones...
...understand how the government can build something like this without talking to us first," says Lin, who offered us a swig of the rice wine-and-beer concoction he's been guzzling to ward off SARS. "They tricked us," adds Shen Xianchang, the caretaker of the converted building. "Even when they started building the isolation wards, they didn't tell us what they were doing." Now, the damaged building is being guarded by resentful villagers. There's only one quarantined person inside, a man who visited SARS-infected Guangdong province last week but who so far has not displayed...
...says. The steam beer comes under heavy scrutiny from the judges. “What kind of yeast did you use?” Meyers asks. “Was it specifically a steam beer yeast?” No, the brewing store was out. Slesar takes a swig and turns to the other judges. “Did I get all the yeast [in this beer] or did you guys get any?” he asks. “If you brew this again,” Meyers says, “give it an extra couple...