Word: ross
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...Thanks for giving me a tool that constantly reminds me how productive humanity can be in its quest for balance and harmony with self and rodentia," said Ross Brown, vice president of a Seattle-based consulting firm, in an e-mail message to Lotze...
MOST MAVERICK SENATOR Then: Edmund Ross (6) of Kansas, whose vote to acquit was the trial breaker Now: Russ Feingold (7) of Wisconsin, only Democrat to break ranks in early votes...
...rapper and producer, and as the owner of Bad Boy Records, one of hip-hop's most powerful new corporate dynasties, Combs has his fingerprints all over rap music in the '90s. His recycling, or sampling, of old hits by the likes of Diana Ross and the Police proved to be pure gold, bringing in millions of new fans even as critics carped that he is to music what Andy Warhol was to painting--a salesman in artist's clothing...
Blake Edwards' plot is standard gender bender fare: Victoria Grant, an Alabama soprano penniless in 1930s Paris, is persuaded by the gay Toddy (Jamie Ross) to pretend that she is really a man playing a woman. Who better, after all, to play a woman than a real woman? Victoria thus becomes 'Count Victor Grazinsky, Europe's greatest female impersonator and soon finds herself the reception of much acclaim. However, as she achieves success, she finds herself falling for King Marchan (Dennis Cole), a Chicago businessman/gangster, who in turn is anguished by his attraction to this 'man.' In this happy world...
...supporting cast redeems the musical, preventing it from being a complete drag (and that pun reflects the musical's general level of humor). Admittedly, as the effete Toddy, Ross signals half his jokes and is forced to deliver some of the show's worst groaners--in response to Victoria's "I don't want to be a man anymore", he replies "Neither do I." But Dana Lynn Mauro as Norma, King's moll, elicits huge laughs with her brassy style, all malapropisms and mangled French ("You know French?" "Oh sure, I just don't speak it"). Flashy and loud, MaBBuro...