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...director, Robert Luketic, who did the very agreeable Legally Blonde (written by two of this movie's screenwriters), falls down big time here. He gets no connection, let alone chemistry, between the two leads, and he botches that obligatory romantic-comedy trope, the falling-in-love-on-the-dance-floor scene. (The film's one decent moment: an elevator kiss.) And as long as he's doing an R-rated comedy, shouldn't he observe one off the genre's cardinal rules and have someone go topless? If not Heigl, then Butler, whose magnificently bulked-up chest...
...bailouts to be had for banks and car companies, but what about Portland's Oregon Ballet Theatre? OBT's 20th anniversary season is around the corner, but its budget has dropped 28%. It's hard to celebrate in style when faced with a "very serious cash crunch," says executive director Jon Ulsh. And it's forcing arts groups to be ever more creative about where and how they look for support...
...performed its final concert on May 17 after 43 years. The Baltimore Opera went bankrupt after a six-decade run. The Las Vegas Art Museum shuttered in late February after 59 years. And the Milwaukee Shakespeare Theatre Company disbanded last October after nine years. "Shocking" is how former marketing director Kristin Godfrey described her reaction when she learned the troupe had to be shut down. As a result of plummeting investments at the Argosy Foundation - which sponsored two-thirds of the company's operating budget - the annual contribution became an impossible check to write. Six weeks was all it took...
...through. The company and community pulled together a one-night gala event, Dance United, which raised the $850,000 that the company was starved for. Now armed with some extra dollars going into the 2009-10 season, Portland's ballerinas may be able to dance away the recession. Artistic director Christopher Stowell called moving forward an "incredible gift...
...There's no doubt that the ground is shifting on marijuana," says Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs. "The discussion about regulating and taxing marijuana now has an air of legitimacy to it that it didn"t quite have before. And the economy has given the issue a real turbo-charge." (Read "Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy...