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THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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YORK THEATER:
THE NEW BOHEMIA: A TRIUMPH! BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. The show
revives the delights extravaganza of 1920s and 1930s Berlin, Munich, Paris
and intellectual-erotic cabaret noir of the Mata Hari era. You can call it
the art deco or art nouveau of the New York new theater direction...
THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
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ARTISTS AND STARS OF THE YEAR:
CINDY BENSON.
America's first lady of the tragi-comic theater.
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THEATRE./DRAMA:
Adrian Hodges has written some of most
successful dramas. He's no stranger to big budget
adaptations of classics, having written the spectacular dinosaur drama, Yhe
Lost World. Adrian has turned his hand to the works of RD Blackmore with
Lorna Doone and wrote the recent version of Charles Dickens' David
Copperfield (which was produced by Kate Harwood , with Costume Design by Mike
O'Neill, both of whom worked on Charles).
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OPERA:
An opera inspired by the 1995 massacre of Muslims
by Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica is due to open in Sarajevo. Almost 8,000 men
and boys were executed in Srebrenica, which was a UN-declared safe zone at the
time. The Bosnian National Opera will perform the opera - called Srebrenicanke
(Srebrenica women) - for the first time.
TOURISM
2.HOSPITALITY
TIPS AND USEFUL INFORMATION: WHAT YOU YOU NEED TO KNOW WHILE VISITING
FRANCE.BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
3.TIPS
AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT HOTELS IN EUROPE. WHAT YOU SHOULD
AND MUST KNOW.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Hotel category/price.
How to make a
hotel booking. Smokers allowed? What about breakfast?
What is a “résidence hôtelière” (an aparthotel)?
Aparthotel category/price?
“Arrondissement” or “département”? High
or low season? Electric
adapters and plugs. Phoning from your hotel. Do you have to be
young to stay at a youth hostel? Check in, check out. What is “day
use”? Does my hotel stay open late? Speak my language? Special
discounts for children? What do I put in the safe? What exactly is
a furnished rental (“meublé”)? What is a “hôtel de charme”?
Do I have to pay the “tourist tax”?
Terms of cancellation. What
does the “Tourisme & Handicap” label denote?
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The best spots, hotels, inns and
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MAGICAL CHARM OF AVENUE DES CHAMPS ELYSÉES.
The Avenue des Champs-Elysées is probably
the most famous avenue in the world. This impressive promenade
stretches from the Place the la Concorde to the Place Charles de
Gaulle, the site of the Arc de Triomphe.
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TRAVEL
2.HOSPITALITY
TIPS AND USEFUL INFORMATION: WHAT YOU YOU NEED TO KNOW WHILE VISITING
FRANCE.BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
3.TIPS
AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT HOTELS IN EUROPE. WHAT YOU SHOULD
AND MUST KNOW.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Hotel category/price.
How to make a
hotel booking. Smokers allowed? What about breakfast?
What is a “résidence hôtelière” (an aparthotel)?
Aparthotel category/price?
“Arrondissement” or “département”? High
or low season? Electric
adapters and plugs. Phoning from your hotel. Do you have to be
young to stay at a youth hostel? Check in, check out. What is “day
use”? Does my hotel stay open late? Speak my language? Special
discounts for children? What do I put in the safe? What exactly is
a furnished rental (“meublé”)? What is a “hôtel de charme”?
Do I have to pay the “tourist tax”?
Terms of cancellation. What
does the “Tourisme & Handicap” label denote?
7.WORLD'S
BEST HOTELS, SPAS AND RESORTS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The best spots, hotels, inns and
restaurants around the globe,
20.
MY FAVORITE HOTELS IN NEW YORK BY MAXIMILLIEN
de LAFAYETTE.
22.THE
VERY BEST OF NEW YORK:
ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS.BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
24.THE
LEGENDARY HOTELS. THE VERY ELITE, LA CRÈME DE LA CRÈME,
BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.
27.THE
WORLD'S MOST UNBELIEVABLE HOTELS
, BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.