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...Diet" house, our overstuffed contestants will have to not only survive each other, but also survive a house stocked with everything but carrots and celery. In every corner, there will be pies and pastries, sausage and spam, cotton candy and candy corn, oil-dripping pizza, luscious string cheese, buttered popcorn, greasy potato chips, hot chocolate fudge, marshmallow stashes, twinkies, ho-hos, lard, etc. And to make things even more intriguing, the house also carries a complete indoor gym and a jogging track. After all, even the producers are alert to the fact that the most dramatic moments of the show...
...actors, three chairs, and page-long monologues about quantum mechanics could be so captivating? - the show looks to be a mainstay of the London theater scene. But there's hardly enough new activity to warrant excitement. The big news is that Joe Penhall finally broke the National Theater's string of poorly received new plays with his new work Blue/Orange, a gripping (if somewhat clinical) treatment of the politics of mental institutions. But Blue/Orange is in pitifully small company when it comes to innovative new works. The word around Andrew Lloyd Weber's upcoming The Beautiful Game is that...
Fortunately for the English, a dearth of new talent just means a greater opportunity to do more Shakespeare. And despite the slight air of defeat in the idea of facing the new millennium with a string of 400 year old plays, it's hard to complain when there are so many worthy productions of the Bard. Leading the pack is the National Theater's new production of Hamlet, starring the incomparable Simon Russell Beale. Bringing a sensitivity and compassion to the title role beyond that found in almost all other stagings in memory, Beale has clearly solidified his position...
...been elegantly remedied by the release of this, the first of four Watson retrospective CDs. The handsome package and excellent liner notes show due appreciation for Watson's legacy, but even in a brown paper wrapper this collection would be essential for anyone with an interest in acoustic steel-string guitar. Aficionados will regret the omission of the classic "Beaumont Rag," but flatpicking touchstones such as "Black Mountain Rag" and "Salt River" and the dazzling fingerpicking of "Doc's Guitar" demonstrate the power and control that put Doc Watson in the most rarefied of company...
McNamara said the incident seems to be a random event rather than part of a larger string of attacks. HUPD detectives have been in contact with local law enforcement agencies this week to determine whether any similar assaults have occurred recently...