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...planned our sneak attack. We envisioned ourselves as Fred and Velma (with better outfits, of course) infiltrating Whitman’s Fugitive Poetics and Alpha Delta Phi undercover...
Michelle Pfeiffer, away from onscreen roles since 2002, returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled for sympathy: "Yes, she's a bigot, but she's also a victim of the era she grew up in. It all changed on her, and what was once perfectly acceptable behavior suddenly wasn't. I think that's sad." Whereas her character in Stardust, a witch bent on destroying...
...vaudeville wannabe who murders her lover after he walks out on her. Sent to jail, she quickly discovers that she can win both freedom and fame by playing off of the sympathy of the scandal-loving city of Chicago. Meanwhile, fellow jailbird and vaudeville legend Velma Kelly (Anna Haas) jealously tries to win back the spotlight as the year’s most sensational murderess...
...mostly) in tune. Ladies who couldn't remember their lines a few weeks ago are now getting all the laughs. The tiny brunet who spent dance practice painting her nails with Tipp-Ex can do a jig on stilts. And the shy, sweet-faced black girl who plays Velma Kelly is belting out And All That Jazz like she's gunning for a Tony. This close-to-home version of Chicago is the brainchild of Wasfi Kani, founder of Pimlico Opera, a small touring company. In 1991, the outfit put on a production of Sweeney Todd in Wormwood Scrubs...
...knowledge of the characters is tested far more than the actors’ abilities. The individual actors all can sing, dance, and act. What matters is the director’s vision—he has to know exactly who will make the best possible Roxie or Velma...