THEATRE:
PLAYS, MUSICALS AND PERFORMERS TO REMEMBER
 P.77.Zellweger
Triumphs!
After triumphing as a musical heroine in the Oscar winner ``Chicago,''
Renee Zellweger ends her new comedy, ``Down With Love,'' with a song.
``When we did that song I wasn't even supposed to be recording,''
Zellweger said of the duet with her co-star, Ewan McGregor.
 P.78.
Othello: Once you've swallowed the unlikely
premise of a black 1940s general, the production works well. Hopkins's
design for Cyprus, an enfolding set of De Chirico-like colonnades, is
outstanding. Kate Fleetwood's Desdemona combines spirit with fidelity as
shown by her abrupt dismissal of Teresa Banham's worldly Emilia.
 P.78.
The Crucible: The relevance of political
plays invariably wavers over time. There have been recent occasions when
Arthur Miller's great broadside against McCarthyism has been made to look
like little more than a tasteful exhibition of Shaker furniture. But Terry
Hands's brilliant post-September 11 production proves that the work has
snapped back into focus.
 P.78-79.
Elmina's Kitchen: Guns, drugs, crime,
racism, the effects of single parenthood, the ease with which young black
men reject education, the troubled relationship between black Britons and
"back home", the frustrated desire to achieve...
 P.79.
US And Them: We speak the same language,
stand united against terror, and are happy to pay a small coterie of
businessmen millions to run our companies. The UK and US are, it would
seem, the very best of friends. In such a climate, Tamsin Oglesby's
play...
 P.80.
Romeo and Juliet: English Touring Theatre
and its director Stephen Unwin have a real knack of spotting talent on the
way up. It was with this company that almost 10 years ago a young Alan
Cumming played Hamlet and Alexandra Gilbreath was a fearsomely young Hedda
Gabler; in the last few years some of the best of our younger generation
of classical actors-Emma Cunniffe, Daniel Evans and Mark Bazeley-have
first made their mark with ETT.
 P.80.
The Taming of the of the Shrew:
It
is often suggested that, in their own time, Shakespeare's plays provided
the mass entertainment that soap operas offer today. So it should be a
short leap from Albert Square to Padua for Ross Kemp, best known as Grant
Mitchell in EastEnders and now making his first stab at Shakespeare.
Kemp's Petruchio is scuppered by an indifferent production - the first
I've seen for some time that plays the chauvinistic plot straight ...
 P.81-92.
GOSSIPS:
Gossips and hot stories about
the stars, the famous and the rich.
 P.93-101.
ART HISTORY:
EARLY CHRISTIAN ANATOLIAN
FRESCOES: Armenian frescoes were
never fully explored and honestly appreciated by the world. It is understandable. Armenia was a confined country
behind the iron curtain. Few foreigners visited Armenia during the
Soviet regime. And much more less during world war two.
 
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CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
  P.102-119.
WORLD CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION:
COMPARATIVE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEITIES, GODDESSES, GODS,
WOMEN AND MEN ART OF FASHION AND DRESS-MAKING FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO EARLY
20th CENTURY.
 P.135-143.
DIVAS.
Anne Kerry Ford:
A sparkling soprano, a superb actress, leading star of America’s best
theatrical plays and musicals, a Broadway stage sensation with wit, humor and
philosophical depth, American Cabaret sweet princess and shining star, an
outstanding recording artist, a philosopher and an artist bigger than the
world we live in!!
Anne Kerry Ford had her ups and downs and her share of terrible..
 P.144.
NANCY
KELLY:
POWERFUL!!
A tornado of music! Explosive, mesmerizing and dangerously captivating Diva!!
And there is nothing you can do about it, except, sit, listen, and witness how
explosive torch singers capture the moment and take the audience by storm.
Her
performance on stage is the culmination of life in all its forms,
passages, seasons and adventures.
P.146-153.
 P.146-153.
DIVA
ANNA BERGMAN: International concert and cabaret artist, ANNA BERGMAN, has been hailed by
The Washington Post as "a vocal citizen of the world who has
triumphed in everything from opera arias to Broadway-flavored tunes and the
sultry innuendoes of the cabaret chanteuse."
Anna Bergman: The Femme Fatale of the
American Cabaret Kingdom…Anna Bergman the American Goddess of Cabaret and what
there is beyond !!
 P.154.
DARYL SHERMAN:
Although she is relatively a “new” leading presence of the new
generation of singers and pianists, Daryl Sherman has been already recognized by
peers and critics as the brightest shining star of the contempo jazz artists
caravan. Influenced by Ella Fitzgerald,
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Julie Andrews,
Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Joe Williams, Mildred Bailey and Sarah Vaughan...
 P.156.
CRISTY
LANE:
A
living legend with a divine talent, a celestial voice made in heaven, a heart
bigger than the universe we know and a message which changed the way we look at
our world, the way we open a door and welcome friends and beloved ones…a message
of love, beauty, hope, inspiration, strength and sweetness which comforts our
soul and heart and brings a fresh breeze to warm tears.
 P.158.
EILEEN
FULTON:
America’s
stunning entertainment diva sings, acts, moves, talks and philosophizes as the
perfect “La Femme Fatale”. As enigmatic as Marlene Dietrich, as classy as Lana
Turner, as dramatic as Edith Piaf and as warm and convincing as Simone Signoret,
this American gem brings class, beauty, elegance, intelligence, warmth, quality
and divinity to the world of American entertainment.
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN
RECORDING INDUSTRY.
 P.170.
MARJORIE MAYE: Maye wrote and composed
some of the world’s best lyrics and music for artists ranging from Celine Dion
to SClub7. Her Nikki Webster’s single “Strawberry Kisses” slammed into the
Australian charts at Number 2, was declared gold in a week, then declared
platinum not long after.
Marjorie Maye is a very expensive enigma. A puzzling and complex delightful
“Femme Fatale”. She looks stunning, she flirts with “La Forza del Destino”,
she mocks the absurdity of intellectualism, she spreads beauty and passion
around her, and her “scent” dissolves you in a mirage of sensuality and daring
thoughts…and she loves dessert and mint chocolate chip ice cream..
 
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WORLD CULTURE, ART AND CIVILIZATION. HOW
MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CIVILIZATION, ART, CULTURE AND HISTORY OF IRAQ?
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