Word: vocally
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...understudy in the original Broadway production of Grease. Still, Gere had to gear up for Chicago. "I was a rock musician and a blues guy," he says, "so for this film, I had to find another place in my voice. It was work." Zellweger endured the most intense vocal training, but she came to the movie with one very important quality ready-made: her winning, vulnerable persona. "You have to like her," says Marshall, "even though she kills somebody...
...formidable voice to a tentative little quaver. "I can make it through the rain, I can stand up once again," she sings. Never mind that Barry Manilow used these approximate lyrics in 1980's I Made It Through the Rain; Carey herself turned in almost the exact same vocal performance on 1993's Hero...
...challenge. Though the opera itself, a four-hour-long work by British composer Nicholas Maw, has received mixed reviews, Kirchschlager's performance has won unanimous raves. The Sunday Times praised her "extraordinary eloquence." The Baltimore Sun said she "could not be more suited to the title role, physically, theatrically, vocally. If there were Oscars in opera, she'd win one as surely as Meryl Streep did." A diva might have an assistant fax her glowing notices from around the world, but Kirchschlager generally avoids reading her reviews. "I'm afraid they might affect my interpretation of the role," she says...
...hatched a new plan to thwart Kim: encouraging massive North Korean defections, in hopes of repeating the kind of exodus that hastened the collapse of East Germany. A refugee crisis seems to be exactly what China doesn't want. Yet Beijing last week allowed U.S. Senator Sam Brownback?a vocal critic of China's practice of sending refugees back home to face imprisonment or even execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia...
...says while showing off the soon-to-be extinct Rieman Dance Center. He sits with his legs crossed, his hand waving in the air, speaking deliberately and glancing around the familiar dance studio. “What I’m doing right now is dance, with improvised vocal communication...