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  • Jimmy Saviles half-century of sex abuse to be made into musical

    Jimmy Savile's history of sex abuses against children is to be made into a musical by a British scriptwriter. Punch and Judy will tell the "dark, irreverent tale" of how the "cheekiest chappy in the land" turned into a sex-hungry monster, the Daily Star reported. The musical will use song and comedy to look at how the late television presenter managed to rape and abuse vulnerable ...

  • Placido Domingo turns Allende short story into opera

    Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa", a production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that premiered Friday in Los Angeles. "Dulce Rosa" is a further effort by the L.A. Opera, directed by Domingo, to bring lyric opera to a wider ...

  • Neram - gem of Tamil cinema

    Film: "Neram"; Cast: Nivin Pauly, Nazriya Nizam, Simhaa, Thambi Ramaiah, Nasser, John Vijay, Charlie and Ananth Nag; Director: Alphonse Putharen; Rating: "Neram" tops a list of films that come once in a while to make us believe that Tamil cinema is not dead. Surprisingly, it's the first-time filmmakers, not the veterans any longer, who are keeping this industry alive and redefining ...

  • Police seizes 1500 explosives in Jharkhands Koderma region

    Acting on a tip off, Jharkhand Police have confirmed the seizure of a huge cache of explosives from a house in the state's Koderma District. The owner of the house from where the explosives were found has been identified as Ayodhya Prasad Mehta. "We have recovered 1500 detonators from the residence of Ayodha Mehta of Machgama village. However, we couldn't arrest him," police inspector Suman ...

  • Czech Konig wins 7th stage of Tour of California

    Doug Pensinger/Getty Images DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Koenig, riding for the German team NetApp-Endura team, quickly moved ahead of Janier Acevedo of Colombia with ...


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Brief Encounter [Blu-Ray]

Brief Encounter [Blu-Ray]

Tender without being melodramatic, intense without being tawdry, David Leans Brief Encounter tells the story of a doomed romance between a man and woman who are married to other people but hopelessly in love with each other. Yet, they are so torn by the guilt of deceiving t ... ...

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  • Being human homosexual acts dance good form and good hygiene part 2

    Being human, homosexual acts, dance, good form and good hygiene, part 2 Editorial, 3/25/2010 Note: This article was added much later as a follow up to the previous article on this subject and to this same addition on 9/27/2010. When looking at the things that make humans distinct from animals in aesthetics, and in following up on my previous article, there are some issues worth ...

  • Denmarks Emmelie de Forest wins Eurovision song contest ....

    Emmelie de Forest of Denmark performs her song "Only Teardrops" during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 17, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012, the final will be held in Malmo on May 18. (AP Photo/Alastair ...

  • Garry Winogrand edited by Leo Rubinfien et al – review

    Culled from thousands of prints and unprocessed films, this collection of Garry Winogrand's photographs confirms him as a giant of American ...

  • Randy Travis files new lawsuit

    Country Singer Randy Travis is pictured in this booking photo supplied by Grayson County Texas Sheriff's office in 2012. (Grayson County Texas Sheriff's ...

  • Love exhausted by memoirs

    Courtney Love's memoirs are keeping her out of trouble - because her deadline has left her little time to party. The rocker landed a lucrative deal with publishers HarperCollins to detail her life and she admits it's proving more difficult and time consuming than she thought. Love tells Bust magazine, "It's one of the reasons why I stay home and watch 30 Rock - because ...

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