Word: confetti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family inspiration helped. Liza remained equally close to her father and her mother after they divorced in 1951. The sets of her father's movies were her childhood playground: "I threw confetti in the American in Paris ballet," she recalls. "On The Long, Long Trailer I think I was playing hopscotch when the camera went by, but he may not have used that take." While her mother gave her practical presents, her father showered her with costumes from his lushly designed movies and would improvise bedtime stories from ideas that she threw out. "I fought my whole life...
...treated to a special-effects laden production of Dracula, followed by this year's equally extravagant The Princess and the Pea. The Nutcracker, now in its 34th annual rendition, is no exception to this bigger and better mentality. Boasting oversized sets and props, more than a ton of white confetti and a cast of over 400, "lavish" would be an understatement...
...Regular patrons of The Nutcracker will discover few changes since last year. Company officials are billing this 34th production as an "enhanced performance," with ten foot Nutcracker sentries greeting the audience as they enter the theater, costumed characters mingling with the audience, free memento buttons and more flameproof white confetti for the snow scene in the Enchanted Forest. However, I noticed none of these "enhancing" touches except for those taking place on the stage. The illusion produced by the fake snow in the Enchanted Forest Scene is truly memorable, while equally impressive are the growing Christmas Tree and Sugar Plum...
...hyped "Y2K: The Movie" was a bomb. According to the Los Angeles Times last week, sales for millennium shows and galas have been "tepid." The paper reports that "many worry that what was initially looked at as a historic payday may end up as a bad investment covered in confetti." Celebration 2000, a lavish event to be held at the Javits Center in New York, was cancelled after no one bought tickets. Even singer/songwriter/poet Jewel canceled her hometown New Year's Eve concert in Anchorage after selling only 1,000 seats...
...utter awe, I stood inside the concert auditorium for a good ten minutes after the show. I then proceeded to collect the silver confetti lying on the stage in front of me. In silence, teddy-bear in hand, I walked towards the T, trying to avoid a flood of tears. They came anyway. I--a Harvard student (a premed for that matter!)--am a teenybopper. An unashamed, ecstatic teenybopper...