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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.
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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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TABLE
OF CONTENTS. Part 2 
P.120.-134.
WORLD CULTURE, ART AND CIVILIZATION.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CIVILIZATION, ART, CULTURE AND
HISTORY OF IRAQ?
P.160-165.
P.175-178.