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Forget the schmaltzy big-budget TV series French networks are again broadcasting to audiences looking for entertainment during languid summer vacation evenings. The big ticket this season is more reality TV than the usual melodrama: the mystery of what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to provoke French soccer hero Zinedine Zidane's now notorious burst of violence during Italy's defeat of France in their World Cup final on Sunday. Almost 48 hours after Zidane's furious head-butting of Materazzi in the chest - an act provoking Zidane's ejection, an ignoble end to his otherwise stellar career - the mystery...
...pedigree of this $150 million production might guarantee its success. (It's booked to run for 10 years, in the space once occupied by the Siegfried & Roy animal act that established Vegas's love for outsize theatrical spectacle.) The top 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...
...stood behind the concession counter at my local movie theater folding kid’s combo trays. My inquisitor was the father of a friend from grade school. My response was some glib remark about the governor not paying interns, a comment somewhat ironic in that ticket-taker-cum-popcorn-popper is certainly not the most high-paying job I could have obtained for summer employment. Despite my flippant manner, however, this question has been nagging me since classes ended: What am I supposed to be doing during the summer? Clearly, I know all too well that adult acquaintances expect...
...takes more than a History degree from one of the world’s top Universities to get a ticket for the (very) limited performances of Alan Bennett’s latest, “The History Boys.” After reading at both Cambridge and Oxford, Bennett’s first stage play—“Forty Years On”—debuted back the revolutionary days of ‘68. However, various critics have considered his recent take on elite schools and education the pinnacle of his career. Judging by the widespread...
...legal system, revolutionize worker training and health care; he would amend the constitution to define marriage and insert Washington into the nation's local schools as never before. In May, the administration celebrated one of its most trivial, and typical, programs - the Department of Transportation's "Click It or Ticket," which mobilizes the federal government to make sure that every driver in the country...is wearing his seatbelt...