Word: wizarding
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...essentially Beverly Hills; the first villain was widely seen as a stand-in for then Disney chief Michael Eisner). Fairy-tale parodies are safe rebellions, spoofing formulas and feel-good endings while still providing the ride into the sunset that pays the bills. In Happily N'Ever After, a wizard runs a "Department of Fairy-tale-land Security," seeing to it that each story--Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, etc.--hews to the book. His bored apprentice Mambo articulates the strategy of his movie and its peers: "I just wish we could mix it up a little. Make it a little edgier! Then...
...Wild Hogs, superhero sequels and slasher films. But Broadway, long worried about its graying audience, is in hot pursuit. A good deal of the credit for this nascent relationship goes to possibly the least-appreciated breakthrough hit of the past decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz, told from the witches' point of view, was dismissed by most critics when it opened in the fall of 2003. But 3 1/2 years later, Wicked is regularly the highest-grossing show on Broadway, with three more companies setting box-office records around the country. And the show's most...
...which explains why few Mexicans were doing hat dances this week when Forbes announced that Slim, 67, had suddenly passed U.S. investment wizard Warren Buffett ($52 billion) as the world's second-richest person - and may well topple Gates as Numero Uno by the time next year's list is unveiled. Whereas Gates' wealth reflects America's tech leadership, Slim's riches -despite the sweat and savvy that built them - tend to symbolize Mexico's archaic system of monopolies and oligopolies, which helps keep almost half the nation's population in poverty by choking oxygen away from the rest...
...public had been stunned when the suspects' identities were revealed. "When you actually see who did it," said the Rev. Jim Parker, whose church was destroyed, "it's like pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz." Moseley, a student at Birmingham-Southern College, had formerly participated in missions where churches were built. He had been Student Government President and Vice President of the Honor Society in high school. Cloyd was studying to be a physician?s assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. DeBusk was a theater major on scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College. Said Connie Lawley...
...ready: two top figure skaters - blond, winsome Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) and bad-boy Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) - get into a brawl on the winners' stand and are forever banished from the male singles category. Three and a half years later, Chazz is drunk and disgraced impersonating a wizard in some Podunk lounge act on ice, and Jimmy is peddling sports equipment at a Ski 'n Shred. But they love skating more than they hate each other, so they agree to become the world's first male-pairs team. "As if skating wasn't gay enough already," a rival snorts...