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...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...
...Titan Tent Sales of big car-camping tents are up 117% over the past three years. The new three-person, two-door Mutha Hubba, $380 from Mountain Safety Research, is both spacious (40 sq. ft. of floor space) and lightweight (less than...
...ticket price is $150 for the 95-min. show, which runs ten times a week, compared to a Broadway musical's eight. The show could well take its place in the Cirque empire: five permanent shows in Vegas, another (La Nouba) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and six tent shows, from the new Corteo to the 14-year-old Saltimbanco. These enterprises are hugely successful; their total annual box office revenue is close to the $840 million earned by all Broadway shows this season...
...Love holds a special challenge, not just for its director, Dominic Champagne (who helmed the tent show Varekai and the sexy Vegas cabaret Zumanity), but for the company as a whole. Cirque's trademark is the creation of original artifacts; Love is the first one whose subject carries its own reverberations and weight, meaning and memories. Beatles songs do what Cirque directors do: tell stories, weave moods, conjure fictional worlds. People coming to Love bring their personal connections to the songs with which Champagne's interpretations must compete. His task is not just to devise a magical mise-en-scene...
...made his decision that night. Before the first rays of sunlight seeped through the thin tent walls, he summoned his remaining strength and called out to George Cherrie, a naturalist who, along with Roosevelt's son Kermit, had been keeping a vigil over the feverish ex-President. Turning to his friend and his son, Roosevelt said, "Boys, I realize that some of us are not going to finish this journey. Cherrie, I want you and Kermit to go on. You can get out. I will stop here...