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  • Madonna emulates screen legend Marlene Dietrich in black tux

    Madonna transformed herself into 1920's German-American star Marlene Dietrich by sporting a black tuxedo and top hat at Paris Theatre in New York for the screening of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour.' The 52-year-old singer's outfit consisting of black suit with a white shirt, tie and vest with a white rose buttonhole, and bright red lipstick bore a striking resemblance to a tailcoat that Dietrich wore ...

  • Community radio reporters acting as climate change communication agents in Central India

    Climate change is real. For an emerging economy like India with a large population directly dependent on natural resources for their sustenance, the changing climate is causing severe economic, environmental and social challenges. Bundelkhand, a semi - arid region comprising of 13 districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is one of the most climate sensitive areas in ...

  • Jackie Chan admires Bollywood welcomes Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration

    Hollywood's action film star Jackie Chan has expressed his love for Bollywood music and dance sequences, and added that he is waiting for the right script and film director before venturing into an Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration. Chan, who is of Chinese descent, is leading a delegation at a six-day Chinese film festival in New Delhi. Welcomed by a thundering applause, the multi-faceted action ...

  • New Zealand Opera director picked to lead Seattle Opera

    Linda Jenkins and her husband, Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins, share a laugh at McCaw Hall with the new general director-designate, Aidan ...

  • Frank Langella to take on role of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre

    Frank Langella , the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorably portrayed Richard Nixon on stage and screen, is to take on King Lear for the Chichester Festival Theatre, it will be announced on Thursday.The role is often called the Everest of acting and has been played in recent years by Derek Jacobi at the Donmar Warehouse and Ian McKellen at the Royal Shakespeare Company.Langella has ...


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The English Patient

"The English Patient" is a is a huge, brooding expanse of a film that intricately tangles love and tragedy and passion and anger and violence and war into one giant collage that sometimes threatens to engulf the viewer with all its complexities. Yet, the true irony is that, after leaving the theater, I felt like there wasn't as much to the film as I had felt there was while watching it. The story ... ...

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  • San Jose Appoints 27-Year-Veteran As Acting Fire Chief

    SAN JOSE (KCBS) -- The San Jose Fire Department announced the appointment of 27-year-veteran Ruben Torres as the acting fire chief on Tuesday. Torres, who was the deputy chief, is taking over after former Chief William McDonald announced last week he ...

  • Iranians dance in the streets after qualifying for World Cup days after election

    For the second time in days, Iranians, who have had little cause for cheer in eight years, have been dancing in the streets. There was an explosion of joy in their fun-starved nation when its beloved national football team won a prized ticket to next summer's World Cup finals in Brazil with a 1-0 away victory over South Korea on Tuesday. This followed a weekend of celebrations after ...

  • ‘Wonderful theatrical experience’ key says new Seattle Opera leader

    Aidan Lang, director of New Zealand Opera, will become general director of the Seattle Opera in September 2014, after the retirement of longtime general director Speight ...

  • Beam in Thine Own Eye – Dark Mofo Hobart

    From the city, it looks like a great beacon; a shard of light breaking the darkness and beckoning Hobart towards the shores of the Derwent, slick and black in the evening gloom. From below, walking among the 48, military-grade searchlights arranged in a perfect grid, it is like being cocooned in a weightless protective cage; a vast light sculpture that rises 15km, cleaving through the Tasmanian ...

  • A royal birth requires ‘a degree of theatre’

    In an era of 24-hour news channels, Twitter, Facebook and other social media, there's one announcement that won't be made electronically this summer: the birth of the royal baby.When the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, delivers her baby next month in London's St. Mary's Hospital, the birth will be announced by the long-standing tradition of placing a public ...

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