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...difficult to shake the suspicion that his blindness has, in marketing terms, contributed to his success. Universal predictably denies it, but Bocelli is not taken seriously by the opera world: in a summer production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Montepulciano Festival in Italy, a comic tenor role was cruelly depicted as blind with a white stick. There were big laughs...
...Lone Gunmen (Fox, 9 p.m. E.T. Sundays for three weeks starting March 4, and 9 p.m. E.T. Fridays starting March 16), the spin-off that is about to make them TV's unlikeliest leading men this side of Jeff Probst. Seven seasons ago, they assumed the comic-relief parts would be, at best, an occasional paycheck. "The first three years," says Haglund, 34, who plays snide computer hacker Langly, "I'd have a different set of glasses on each time, because I'd just throw them back into the prop bag." None of the trio have much recognition, or extensive...
...Finding all six issues of "Breakfast After Noon" in one place will be difficult. You should only try the top-tier comic shops, both virtual and real. You can also get them from the publisher's web site: onipress.com and they will be collected into a trade paperback in July. Andi Watson also has a web site: andiwatson.com
...then Bush had grasped the comic, or at least fairytale, possibilities, and, after a short pause, delivered the last line with a smile. "I respectfully disagree. This tax relief is just right...
...Where Merman was brassy and Peters cutesy, Reba is just doin' what comes naturally. She has an easy stage presence, a winning comic flair, and when she says she "cain't get a man with a gun," you know she didn't have to rehearse the accent. Best of all, she gives the great score a fresh, country-flavored reworking, lacing songs like "Lost in His Arms" and "Moonshine Lullaby" with quavers and curlicues and a hearty, maple-syrup sweetness that would have brought tears to the eyes of Berlin himself. As it did to mine...