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...music of Léo Delibes. It is one of the greatest comic classical ballets in history, telling the whimsical tale of the easily fooled Frantz, his love Swanilda, and their encounters with old Dr. Coppélius, the town toy-maker and magician. Though Frantz originally pesters Dr. Coppélius, he is lured by the beauty of the scheming toy-maker’s life-sized doll Coppélia and bewitched with magic sleeping potion. All the while, clever Swanilda fools both the toy-maker and Frantz—her husband-to-be?...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Ballet Imbues Coppélia with Spirit | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...best known for his Roman fictions Pompeii and Imperium, for a film version of Harris's roman-a-clef The Ghost, he might have felt that the book had been written from his own recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush job because the previous ghost, Mike McAra, has died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...Wingfield is no hero, no magician, no businessman. Tom is no writer; he has little save a cigarette. But, what he does have is a story: there was Laura, the painfully shy sister; Amanda, the worried mother; Jim, the gentleman caller; and there was Tom. Tom Wingfield has his memory...

Author: By Vicky Y. L. Ge, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Preview: THE GLASS MENAGERIE | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Movie back in 2003. When in Rome invents a corollary legend: that if you remove a coin from the fountain, the person who put it there will instantly and passionately fall in love with you. Beth takes five, and in short order has a quintet of love slaves: a magician (Jon Heder), an artist (Will Arnett), a male model (Dax Shepard), a sausage entrepreneur (Danny De Vito)... and Nick. Somehow the first four follow Beth back to New York to serve as the marplots for her budding affair with Mr. Perfect. (Who will go home with an Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When in Rome: When Not Quite Awful May Have to Do | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...final illusion that really proved Wright to be a master magician. He took a $20 bill which had the name of a Pfoho resident written on it, turned it into one dollar bill, then opened a bag which contained an orange, peeled the orange, and revealed the twenty dollar bill with the student’s name on it. Wright received a standing ovation...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfocus Pocus | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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