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CHICAGO. The potential revival of the Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Chicago screens...
...night at the Kong,” recalls Long fondly, “I was having the people we’d filmed sign releases, when these Tufts girls came up and asked if we were filming Girls Gone Wild. They seemed pretty excited about the potential of getting filmed if we were, and were disappointed when I told them we weren’t, and that I didn’t have any t-shirts to hand...
...anyone who remembers the pre-cable heyday of National Geographic documentaries or Wild Kingdom (which now airs on Animal Planet) on broadcast TV, it may seem surprising that Discovery has so quietly become a cable powerhouse. That may just be a consequence of a 500-channel universe. But now that cable is entering the digital age, Hendricks is hoping to give Discovery a much higher profile. He has already started the nation's first 24-hour HDTV subscription service, which provides a variety of Discovery programming in high definition for $8 a month. And he will soon announce plans...
...even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children. Her central female character undergoes horrible suffering but triumphs in such a way that professors will undoubtedly be including Rice Mother on the reading list for Gender Empowerment...
CHICAGO. The potential revival of the Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Die-hard Bob Fosse fans may leave screaming in disgust, but fortunately for the rest of us director Rob Marshall knows...