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...easy one. Whose bright idea was it to take a genre that almost nobody likes - the vampire musical - concoct a story (based on Anne Rice's novels) that spans a couple of hundred years and loses us at about year 65, and induce Elton John to write a score that (except for one lively rock number in the second act, in which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts for two previous vampire...
More than half the characters on Grey's Anatomy are African American or female, although Rhimes insists she didn't write race into it at all. Her script for the pilot had no physical descriptions other than gender. But it came naturally to her to cast that way. "Shonda sees the world through the eyes of human beings. That's the bottom line," says Washington, who says his role as the brilliant surgeon has finally allowed him to break away from playing so many stereotypical thug roles. "Her characterizations are definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson...
...years you've resisted when reporters asked you to tell your story. Why open up now? Part of why I wanted to write the book was to talk about what it's really like inside our family. The media are really good at creating caricatures, and one person who's been caricatured is my dad. He is supposedly this malevolent force, and he's not. My dad's job is to give the President the best advice that he can possibly give. I think he's been pretty darned effective at that...
...nearly quit the 2004 campaign when the President signaled support for a constitutional amendment barring gay marriage. Why did you stay? I had serious reservations about whether or not I could continue working for a candidate who wanted to write discrimination into the Constitution. A big reason I stayed is my dad: I love my father, and I believe in him so strongly. When push came to shove, this election was about huge issues facing our country. Given that we live in this world where terrorists would love to attack us, I didn't have the luxury of being...
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