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...event boasts a unique feature: Like a high school Christmas party, entertainment is provided in the form of skits spoofing the year's top films. Actors such as Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jude Law regularly show up and don cheesy wigs and Wal-Mart dresses to perform mini-sketches. There are usually a slew of inside references to the Weinstein brothers, who created and run Miramax. Last year I observed Michael Eisner (chairman of Miramax parent company Disney) watching the proceedings with all the intensity of an attendee at the Oberammergau passion play...
...baseball, first impressions are usually a fuzzy indicator of how a team will perform over the course of an entire season. At the start of any given year, coaches are still tinkering with their lineups, players are still ironing out the kinks and some teams are bound to have more games under their belts than others...
...between two men? Many straight men find sex between women an appealing prospect, at least to watch. Why does he shy away from telling us precisely what he means if he believes that we should lay our cards on the table and discuss what "acts" we like to perform and why we like to perform them...
...workshop, people look at a flash of talent but, when people scrutinize a thesis, they expect you to perform on every page," he says...
DIED. DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS, 102, formidable dance teacher, choreographer and founder of Britain's Royal Ballet; in London. De Valois was a classical ballerina by training, but as a director she often mounted wildly experimental productions, sending dancers to perform barefoot. A writer and an art lover, she sometimes brought drawings to life on her stage: Bar aux Folies-Bergere (1934), for instance, was inspired by a Manet painting of a Parisian lounge...