A wildly popular theatrical twist for the holidays.
Christmas season must be coming, because Mark Lazar has been fitted for his dress.
In the holiday spirit, attentive colleagues are watching Susan McKey try (and try and try) to bash her head with precision into a round wooden tabletop so the table, and not her head, splits in two and crashes to the floor. She finally does it - so convincingly it's almost shocking - and everyone laughs to celebrate her triumph, because laughter here is paramount.
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According to the Population Reference Bureau, what is the approximate number of people who have ever lived on Earth? (a) 50 billion, (b) 100 billion, (c) 1 trillion, (d) 5 trillion?
This is not the end of Oprah Winfrey.
Maybe not even the end of her TV show.
True, in a tearful announcement yesterday, the self-made media mogul - host of the highest-rated talk show for 23 years, seen in 145 countries, worth a breathtaking $2.7 billion - confirmed for her audience what had been rumored for weeks: that the show would be ending.
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There can be little doubt that the Bruce Nauman show at the 53d Venice Biennale, closing today, will reverberate in significant ways for the artist, the Biennale, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which curated this selective career retrospective.
'We all the know the joys of degradation," Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk wrote in an essay on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From Undergound included in Pamuk's 2007 collection of nonfiction, Other Colors.
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- On Movies Online: "New Moon" director talks about Bella, bells and whistles
TORONTO - Director David Cronenberg, who cast Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in Eastern Promises, tells how his star would disappear from the London shoot on weekends, not revealing where he was going, and return Monday with photographs and objects, tattoo books, and snatches of Russian street slang he had gleaned during his stealth getaways to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
- In the Mix: Ray Davies at the Tower
Shakira is the lycanthropic predator on the prowl who issues a warning to all who might resist her.
"Nocturnal creatures are not so prudent," she sings, while writhing around in a cage in a flesh-colored bodysuit, on "She Wolf," the title track of her new album, which comes out Tuesday. "The moon's my teacher, and I'm her student."
Movies Opening This Week Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans See Steven Rea's preview on H2. Opens Wednesday
Pervasive sweetness and poor cooking made a first sampling of this "Hong Kong street food" sour indeed. A second was a bit tastier.
There was so much syrupy hoisin and sweet sauce streaked across my first dinner at Kong - Northern Liberties' new ode to Hong Kong street food - that it was pretty clear Michael O'Halloran's "authenticator" wasn't having the desired effect.
- » See Magazine for TV, some reviews
Family Harry Potter and the Magical Muggle Museum. Children and adults can enjoy an extravaganza designed for Harry Potter fans, magic lovers, and loyal readers of author J.K. Rowling's novels. Visitors can dress up as their favorite Harry Potter character, or this year as their favorite character from Twilight, the vampire-based fantasy novels by author Stephenie Meyer.
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Mark Soifer, who's worked to put Ocean City on the map for almost four decades, remembers his early years in town when the Shore closed down after Labor Day and the entire tourist industry started thinking about the next Memorial Day.
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