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...Best Play Three Brit imports (Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer and The 39 Steps) vs. a lone American play, August: Osage County, and for once the homegrown entry is the favorite. And for once I'm backing a winner: Tracy Letts' explosive family drama is the easiest choice of the night...
...Best Musical Two campy trifles (Cry-Baby and Xanadu) vs. two more adventurous, new-style musicals, Passing Strange and In the Heights. Both are worthy, but Heights, as the fuller theatrical experience, is my narrow choice...
...thousands of books published on obesity, body weight is the result of a pretty simple equation: calories taken in vs. calories expended. Over the past few decades, the entire American environment has become much more obesogenic, or obesity-supporting. Think of the ever increasing supply of fast-food outlets, where meal sizes have ballooned, or the fact that simple physical activity has been largely eliminated from the daily lives of children, who ride in cars where their grandparents might have walked and entertain themselves with an array of sedentary electronic pastimes that didn't even exist a generation...
...Call Girl at its best is not really a sexy show. There's something studied and businesslike about Belle's bed play, and her sessions with pasty-buttocked businessmen are usually more funny than arousing. It's not a profound show either, though Hannah occasionally ruminates on her sex-vs.-love life à la Carrie Bradshaw in satc: "Sex is really a numbers game. Group sex is complicated, but that's mechanics. For me the hardest numbers have always been one plus one." (One is the loneliest but by no means the highest number that she'll ever...
...Conversation Education vs. Diplomacy...