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Interestingly, it has been suggested that Shakespeare may have been one of the translators of the King James authorized version of Scripture, which was published in 1611; the translators remain anonymous to history. What is known is that it was translated at Hampton Court in 1610, a year when Shakespeare appears to have been in retirement. Shakespeare was 46 years of age that year, and if you go to Psalm 46 and count in 46 words, you will come to the word shake. Go to the end of the psalm and count back 46 words, and the next word...
...Australia few animals are as loathed as the rabbit. A non-native, it outbreeds and outeats the local fauna. That's why the Easter Bilby has caught on. The beady-eyed 5-lb. marsupial is on the endangered-species list thanks to rabbits, but its candy version has prospered, scoring 10% of all the country's Easter-chocolate sales. Somehow the Playboy Bilby doesn't seem as cute an idea...
What turns an actress on? If you're Natasha Richardson, scion of one of Britain's most famous acting families (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave) and trying to carve your own niche on the stage, playing Sally Bowles in a radically revamped version of Cabaret is one sure way. Deciding how to follow up that Tony-winning turn, however, is a tougher call. Richardson twice turned down an offer to join the four-person Broadway cast of Patrick Marber's hit London play Closer. Asked a third time, she thought it over for a weekend and agreed--not because the role...
...KOSOVO AS KOSOVO, the Milosevic version. Once again the Serbs are engaged in a heroic defense of Kosovo, as they were against the Turks in the great battle of 1389. Today Serbian propaganda appeals constantly to this mythology of martial sacrifice. There's only one problem: the Serbs lost the battle of Kosovo...
...times with a smoky, un-Ella-like sensuality; and a deeply personal, even abstract sense of phrasing. How can you not like a singer who's brassy enough to belt Summertime as hard as if it were Hit the Road Jack and nervy enough to tackle a vocal version of Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman...