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Apollo Makes History Again
David Eaton’s approach to the young aspiring musicians’ learning experience, which was to blend them right in with the accomplished New York City Symphony professionals, is most admirable and inspiring. The students were given the opportunity to sit in with the New York City Symphony Orchestra — one of the most revered orchestras in the world –not only on the night of the performance, but even during weeks of rehearsal. This gave the students a chance to experience what it is like to work in the professional environment as a seasoned musician.
Halle Berry’s X-Men
In the wake of her freshly finalized divorce last year from crooner Eric Benet, she found herself fretting that maybe she just wasn’t marriage material, given her unfortunate track record of being victimized by infidelity and spousal abuse. Here, Halle opens up about reprising her role as Storm, about her biological clock ticking, about Oprah’s Legend’s Ball and she even updates us about her philandering ex-husband
Sing Sing To Broadway
“I’m hoping that there will be people out there in the audience who are willing to say, ‘I want to be involved in some way – how can I help?’â€? added Sanchez. “I think that in order for us to produce law-abiding people, we need to do it as a team. We can’t expect the men and women on the inside to come home and be successful on their own. They need help.â€?
Interview: Mission Impossible III
I expect everyone I’m working with, down to Craft Service, the P.A.s, to do their jobs and enjoy it. Let’s get real, I have the best, I can’t even call it a job, the best life in the world. I get to do something that I love. I think it’s a privilege to be able to make movies. That’s something that I have never taken for granted. And I get that with J.J. So, yes, I do want that chemistry. That’s what I’m looking for.
Interview: Filmmaker Deepa Mehta
I grew up with films. My father was a film distributor in India. I had films coming out of my ears. I had a love affair with films at a very young age. By the time I went to the University I was oversaturated by them. I decided to pursue an academic career at New Delhi University, till I had an opportunity and some down town to work in a place called the cinema workshop which made documentary films in Delhi for the government in India. I learned sound, editing and even camera work and write my own documentaries on how to grow wheat.
Review: Police Beat
While the average person might be rattled by a relentless exposure to so many disturbing sights, Z takes it all in stride. Afterall, he’s a recent immigrant from West Africa, and very happy just to be in America. Plus, although he’s a conservative Muslim, he is very attached to the white American girlfriend he met in school, Rachel (Anna Oxygen), a free-spirited, Earth Mother.
Review: Kinky Boots
So, the obvious answer to these financial woes rests with offering a trendier line of footwear. But first, he has to hire a designer and figure out what segment of the market he wants to target. The answer to both questions arrives the night he comes to the assistance of Lola, the victim of a hate crime at the hands of a gang of homophobic hoodlums.
United 93 Interview
The question is, does it make it easier for us if we think that their not human? Because I think it does and I think that we need to confront the fact that this danger remains. There are a lot of young men who flock to that banner. Who are hijacking Islam and perverting it. And the one thing that we can know about this day without a shadow of a doubt is that there was nothing exceptional about those young men either. Nobody noticed them. Nobody sitting next to them said, ‘you’re not human.’ They looked like us.
One Bright Shining Moment
The problem with this political bio-pic is that its subject, the straitlaced ex-Senator from South Dakota isn’t a particularly charismatic figure, unlike the fiery Chisholm or the fidgety Secretary of Defense McNamara who was the focus of The Fog of War. In fact, McGovern comes off, here, as an opportunist, a compromise candidate that neither the anti-war movement nor Middle-America was truly enchanted with.
