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Has Broadway out-spoofed the 'Forbidden'?
Chicago Tribune criticWe'll be singing this 'til dawn/You'll wish that you weren't born Let's stop this damn refrain/Before we go insane For this is our song that ends like this! Pop quiz, musical fans! Which show has a lyric that ends like that? If you thought...Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, 30 Rock, Music Theater, Judaism, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Friday's Highlights
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Tragic reunion: Melinda ( Jennifer Love Hewitt) finds herself reliving the old days with a group of ex-classmates after one dies mysteriously on "Ghost Whisperer" (8 p.m. CBS).
Monster truck: The six remaining contestants learn to drive a...Tags: Boston Red Sox, Gregory Hines, Major League Baseball, Connie Francis, Harvey Korman
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Calendar
On Stage 'Secret' Red Branch Theatre Company, a new adult company in residence at Drama Learning Center, is presenting its first musical production, The Secret Garden, through Sunday. Based on the classic children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the...Tags: Photography, People, Painting, Bodies of Water, Literature
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Review: 'Religulous'
Times Movie Critic" Religulous," the new documentary starring Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles, doesn't take the time to define its title, but Maher has said elsewhere that it is a combination of "religious" and "ridiculous." By joining the two, the filmmakers have...Tags: Holy Land Experience, Religulous, Desmond Tutu, Robert F. Kennedy
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'Flash' cast picks greatest inventions
The Associated PressThe world certainly could live without the intermittent windshield wiper, the invention at the heart of "Flash of Genius." But on those mildly rainy days when you don't need the wipers flapping at full force, that intermittent option makes driving a lot...Tags: Greg Kinnear, Automotive Equipment, Film Festivals, Electrical Appliance, Alan Alda
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Howard County Datebook
On Stage 'Blacklisted' Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard Community College, is starting its 16th season with Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, Christopher Trumbo's story of his father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and his...Tags: Ellicott City, Photography, Village Green, Poetry, People
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Laughter trumps correctness in 'The Producers'
Max Bialystock, once a great Broadway producer, has been brought low by a series of failures. His accountant, Leo Bloom, mentions a curious fact: Max could make more money from a flop than from a hit. Unfortunately, it would mean breaking the law....Tags: Food and Dining Culture, Adolf Hitler, Phil Silvers, Dance, Minority Groups
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Bill Maher questions religion, God in 'Religulous'
Special to NewsdayTORONTO Just because you believe in God, says Bill Maher, doesn't mean you're mentally challenged. Not necessarily. "I always prefer to call it a neurological disorder," quipped the host of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" - the usual mischievous smile...Tags: Hugh Hefner, The White House, Film Festivals, Religious Texts, Scientology
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Off the Wall: 'Knight Rider' to sex addicts
Off the Wall always wanted a talking car. HASSLE THE HOFF. Timed to the arrival of NBC's new series remake of "Knight Rider" (Wednesday at 8 p.m., NBC/4), the NBC-owned cabler Sleuth is running mini-marathons of David Hasselhoff's original '80s "Knight...Tags: Audrina Patridge, Joey Fatone, Ryan Seacrest, Celebrity, Emmy Awards
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Same old thing on Broadway?
The Associated PressWhere have all the new plays gone? On Broadway this fall, it will be a lonely pair -- To Be or Not to Be and Dividing the Estate -- that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry revivals such as Equus and All My Sons. To Be or Not to Be...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Jack Benny, Daniel Radcliffe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Carole Lombard
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Praying for an utter failure
Max Bialystock needs a flop. Boy, does he need a flop. In a get-rich plot hatched with his neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, the washed-up Broadway has-been pulls together what should be a can't-miss fiasco: a musical called "Springtime for Hitler"...Tags: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Adolf Hitler, Music Theater, Munster
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'Igor'
Special to NewsdayThere's always a pivotal moment in a monster movie when you know things are going to go terribly wrong. In the fanciful, smarty-pants "Igor," that moment arrives when the towering, patchwork, reanimated Eva (voice of Molly Shannon) is accidentally exposed...Tags: John Cleese, Sean Hayes, Molly Shannon, Tim Burton, Eddie Izzard
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