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...thank Mel Brooks, of all unlikely souls - thank you, Mel Brooks - for prodding Broadway back to life in 2001 with The Producers. That staging of his 1968 movie was full-throttle farce with generically catchy songs, and it presaged the next generation of smart-silly musical comedies. Among its spawn were Hairspray and Spamalot, shows that put a post-modern twist on the antique shows of the '20s and '30s. Back then, plots were dental-floss clotheslines on which to hang a dozen chipper songs, and the audiences were meant to go out humming and smiling...
...French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code granted fans access to a thrillingly fictionalized Opus Dei, a religious society both secretive and sinister. Our story on the reality of the Roman Catholic group's rituals, social connections and spiritual convictions inspired readers' aversion, wonder and spirited defense Thank you for your report on the controversial Catholic organization Opus Dei [April 24]. Any group that is exclusive, isolated and secretive cannot be truly Christian. Just like the press investigations into the protection given to pedophile priests, your article will help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy...
...closing. Until May 31, Harnett’s will have reduced hours. The store will be closed on Sundays, and it will close at 7 p.m. during the rest of the week—two hours earlier than before. “We would like to thank all of our loyal customers for your continued support over the years,” the sign read. “I found stuff here that I had never seen before, so I kept coming back,” said Devon Berkshire, a student at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre...
...wrote on his Facebook wall Saturday at 9:03 a.m.: “You are the greatest person I’ve ever known in my entire life and thank you for having been part of it! I have more than 5 years of our memories to cherish for the rest my life...