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...Tommy, when he's not doing time at Rahway Correctional Facility, sings with neighborhood pal Nick (J. Robert Spencer) and looks out for a guy, one year younger, whom he calls "kid": Frankie Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young). Frankie's wife Mary (Jennifer Naimo) warns him: Mary: "With friends like these, maybe you should change your name to Sinatra." But he goes for Valli. Then Tommy's pesty friend Joe Pesci, yes, that one, hooks him up with Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard), a teenager who a few years before had a novelty hit called "Short Shorts." He wants music...
...even his worst blunders. Not this time. Now, both his talents and his luck have run out. The "minor cerebrovascular accident" he suffered several months ago was a telling reminder that next week he turns 73. He recovered well, but for a man who has always looked 10 years younger than he actually is, the strain has been showing. He appeared on television last week in a somber mood, wearing severe eyeglasses instead of his usual contact lenses, and expressed himself like a politician from a generation ago, off-track and infelicitous. Chirac no longer looked like the colossal force...
...THINK OPERA NEEDS CELEBRITY SINGERS TO GET YOUNGER PEOPLE INTERESTED? [Audiences] want to hear the most thrilling singing. When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. To get younger people interested, you also need a sense of theater and spectacle. Titles have made it more accessible. But I think the real future is streaming video over the Internet--then you can be heard not just by 3,000 people in the hall but live all around the world. One of the biggest markets for classical music is China...
...PLEADED GUILTY. OMRI SHARON, 41, Israeli member of parliament and son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; to illegal campaign fund-raising; in Tel Aviv. Accepting a plea bargain, the younger Sharon admitted to falsifying corporate records, perjury and violating fund-raising laws during his father's 1999 campaign to lead Israel's right-wing Likud Party. Sharon's guilty plea means he must step down as a Likud legislator...
...cities. The importance of rice in the Japanese or Korean diet is also on the wane as youngsters eat more Western-style foods. The amount of rice consumed by the average Korean has fallen 24% over the past 10 years alone, according to Korean government figures. "For the younger population, cooking rice is just too much of a hassle," says Kamiki, the Japanese food culture analyst. What's more, rice farmers are literally dying out. In Japan, 80% of them are more than 60 years old, while half of South Korea's rice farmers are past that age. After they...