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Critics ignored: 'Just Married' on top

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Sunday, Jan. 12,2003 11:52 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Audiences ignored the critics and propelled the Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher comedy "Just Married" to the top of the weekend box office.

Disney breaks into China

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Jan. 12,2003 11:51 p.m.

HONG KONG -- At a groundbreaking ceremony for Hong Kong Disneyland, top executives of Walt Disney Co. said Sunday they were confident their first theme park on Chinese soil will draw millions of visitors a year despite the global economic downturn.

Guitarist claims porn used for book research

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Jan. 12,2003 11:50 p.m.

LONDON -- Guitarist Pete Townshend of 'The Who' said Saturday he downloaded child pornography from the Internet while researching an autobiography discussing his suspected childhood sexual abuse.

Maurice Gibb: Legendary founder of Bee Gees dies Sunday at 53

By Alyson Brodsy and Adrian Sainz · Sunday, Jan. 12,2003 11:49 p.m.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Maurice Gibb, who with his brothers built the Bee Gees into a disco sensation that ruled the charts in the late '70s with hits like "Stayin' Alive" and "More Than a Woman," died Sunday at the age of 53.

Channel's new leader sees future in reality TV, movies

By Gary Gentle · Friday, Jan. 10,2003 1:38 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Angela Shapiro had been president of the ABC Family Channel only a few weeks when she approved her first show, a reality program featuring families who think they're funny enough to star in their own sitcom. "I did it on two sentences from (producer) Bruce Nash: 'Haven't you always said your life is funnier than a sitcom? Well we're going to find the families whose lives really are,'" Shapiro said Wednesday.

Composer Ron Goodwin dies

Friday, Jan. 10,2003 1:38 p.m.

LONDON -- Ron Goodwin, who composed a string of classic movie scores including "Where Eagles Dare," "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy," has died at 77, his wife said Thursday.

One night's worth of reality TV

By Frazier Moore · Friday, Jan. 10,2003 1:37 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Actress Kim Coles got the boot, along with 10 handsome bachelors and four star-struck performers. All were casualties on the same night as a trio of new series swelled the ranks of "reality TV."

Scholar's Inn Bakehouse food varies

By Adam Streer · Monday, Dec. 16,2002 11:37 a.m.

Most of the time, I love exotic food. With finals looming just a few days away, this was not one of those times. I needed some good old fashioned comfort food. With this in mind, I found myself in The Scholar's Inn Bakehouse.

A POPS kind of Christmas

By Kristen Van Hoesen · Monday, Dec. 16,2002 11:36 a.m.

It wasn't Radio City, and it wasn't Carnegie Hall. But it was Christmas. Christmas With the Pops Saturday night rang full of the traditional music and magic of the holidays, as the warmth of Christmas carols resonated through the IU Auditorium, sheltered from the snow and icy winds outside.

Rocking out in high heels

By Jane Charney · Monday, Dec. 16,2002 11:35 a.m.

Most of the time, I can't even wrestle my way to walking in one-inch heels, much less three-inch ones. But the ability to walk in heels isn't Jeffrey Eisner's main talent (though I have to give major props to any guy who can handle 90 minutes of standing, dancing, running and jumping in three-inch heels).

Students publish literary journal

By Maura Halpern · Friday, Dec. 13,2002 12:39 a.m.

This is the creativity of everyday life -- the folklore of IU students. Feelings about life, love and pain are espoused for everyone to read. This is the new edition of Canvas, IU's creative arts magazine that was unveiled Wednesday evening at the Indiana Memorial Union's State Room East.

A Rock Journey

By Jane Charney · Friday, Dec. 13,2002 12:29 a.m.

When Jeffrey Eisner first started at IU as a musical theater major through the Individualized Major Program, he knew his final project would not be something as simple as a few cabaret tunes. Finally in his senior year and due to graduate in May 2003, Eisner is directing, producing and starring in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." The critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock hit is a story of an East German rock singer Hansel, who suffers a botched-up sex change operation to get over the Berlin Wall.

Collector buys clues to 5th 'Potter' book

By Audrey Woods · Friday, Dec. 13,2002 12:08 a.m.

LONDON (AP) -- An American collector has paid more than $45,000 for a card full of clues to the plot of the long-awaited fifth Harry Potter book. The unidentified buyer made the winning bid Thursday for the card, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling as a charity fund-raiser. The money will be used to buy more than 18,000 books for schools in Africa.

Promoter pulls plug on Axl

By Josh Hoffner · Friday, Dec. 13,2002 12:08 a.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Guns N' Roses announced they were going on tour this fall after a nine-year hiatus, fans of the heavy metal band snapped up tickets. Axl Rose was back and there was talk of a new album. But the comeback has been no "Paradise City.''

12 animals, woman share makeshift home

By Sara Kugler · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 11:59 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Backstage at Radio City Music Hall, past the Rockettes' dressing rooms, three camels, six sheep, two donkeys and a horse keep a woman awake each night. But it's not the noise. Except for an occasional bleat from the sheep, the four-legged stars of the "Christmas Spectacular" sleep soundly. Their human handler, Bambi Brook, dozes fitfully in her makeshift apartment across from the donkey pen and below the stage, where she lives throughout the eight-week run of the show to take 24-hour care of her flock.

IU graduates set up troupe

By Kelli Long · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 11:57 p.m.

Bloomington Music Works is a local community theatrical troupe comprised of local artists and IU students. The troupe, which is currently in its fifth season, specializes in musical theater and produces three to four shows every year. Most of the shows are performed in the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Brian Samarzea, a graduate of IU's School of Music and BMW's artistic director, founded the company along with other graduates of the School of Music after a theater group with which he was affiliated fizzled out.

Detective Nancy Drew returns to TV

By Alyson Brodsy and Beth Harris · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:01 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Maggie Lawson believes she was born to play Nancy Drew. It would sound corny coming from anyone other than the ebullient Lawson, a Louisville, Ky., native who unapologetically admits she sees the good in everything.

Brits confirm Entwistle died of drug overdose

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12 a.m.

LONDON -- John Entwistle, bass player of The Who, died from taking cocaine, which stopped his heart from beating, a coroner ruled Wednesday.

Classic construction

By Alyson Brodsy and Patrice L. Worthy · Wednesday, Dec. 11,2002 11:59 p.m.

Ballerinas dancing about are the inspiration in R320, a highly complex costume construction class in the Costume Construction Technology Program (CCT). The class is one of a series where students learn behind-the-scenes techniques and costuming for operas and the stage. In this particular class, the students are constructing ballerina tutus. Making tutus is a time-consuming skill that not many people learn in school and fewer people perfect.

Smashes and duds taking the stage on Broadway

By Michael Kuchwara · Tuesday, Dec. 10,2002 10:49 p.m.

NEW YORK -- To paraphrase (sort of) from Charles Dickens: It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows. Two big, expensive musicals arrived this week on Broadway within a day of one another, and their receptions couldn't have been more different. "La Boheme," Australian director Baz Luhrmann's takes on the beloved Puccini opera, received the best reviews since "Hairspray" opened last August. But "Dance of the Vampires," starring Michael Crawford, had most critics out for blood and tossing around such adjectives as "mindless," "vapid," "amateurish" and "mortifying." For "La Boheme," the rapturous notices have paid off at the box office. Monday's take, the day after the opening, was close to a million dollars, "in the high six figures" according to producer Jeffrey Seller, and sales continued to be strong Tuesday.

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