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...Burton could sell his bottles of wry whimsy to film fans, Matthew Bourne has managed a tougher trick: getting the mass audience to go crazy for ballet. The English choreographer's updating of The Nutcracker and Cinderella have been perennials of the London theater. His all-male Swan Lake was a Broadway sensation in 1998. He also brought Samuel Beckett's Play Without Words to dance life. In a more traditional mode, Bourne co-directed and co-choreographed the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins , which started in London and came to Broadway last November. Demolishing conventions, bestriding art forms...
SIMPLY PUT, THE BIBLE IS THE MOST influential book ever written. Not only is the Bible the best-selling book of all time, it is the best-selling book of the year every year. In a 1992 survey of English teachers to determine the top-10 required "book-length works" in high school English classes, plays by Shakespeare occupied three spots and the Bible none. And yet, let's compare the two: Beauty of language: Shakespeare, by a nose. Depth of subject matter: toss-up. Breadth of subject matter: the Bible. Numbers published, translated etc: Bible. Number of people martyred...
...split from Rome. "It was a sexy time. It was a dangerous time. You can't exaggerate the violence and the beauty," says Michael Hirst, screenwriter of The Tudors and The Golden Age. "This is the moment when Henry--because he falls in love with a younger woman--destroys English history...
...West Wing--esque political drama. Like Martin Sheen's President Bartlet, Rhys Meyers' Henry is appealingly curious about the world around him. "We live in a political climate that is so anti-intellectual," says Beem. "The Tudors are the best-educated monarchs ever to get on the English throne. Henry wrote a book in Latin." He also had a keen eye for talent, surrounding himself with brilliant men like Cardinal Wolsey, played by Sam Neill as a surprisingly sympathetic character for modern audiences--more of a workaholic gunning for a promotion than the venal, grasping manipulator he's often depicted...
...Which raises an interesting question: Is it the difference from their own lives or the similarity to the Tudors' situation that Gregory's fans find compelling? Though it's generally considered a period in which women were repressed, Beem--whose book The Lioness Roared focuses on female rule in English history--feels the Tudor era is of particular interest to women in positions of influence. In terms of being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth was way ahead of her time. "She's the model of female rule in a male-dominated society," Beem says. "Elizabeth was the master...