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SFGate: Entertainment
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Entertainment news and features. From SFGate.com: the Bay Area's home page, online home of the San Francisco Chronicle and much more.
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ARIES (March 20-April 18): Narrate your side of events from start to finish. You’ll soon see an acquaintance’s outrage turn into full-bodied support. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Invite your supervisor out to lunch. Getting this person away from the office...
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What's Indy up to? Secrecy shrouds 'Crystal Skull'
Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings. Director Steven Spielberg has tried to keep chapter four of the archaeologist's big-screen adventures, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,"...
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Verdi opera uses World Trade Center, Hitler for shock value
A new staging of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" has been retooled for shock value, moving the setting to the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center and inserting liberal doses of flabby flesh and Hitler in drag. The staging at the Theater Erfurt, which...
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Fiction review: 2 novels of arranged marriages
A Good Indian Wife By Anne Cherian Norton; 376 pages; $23.95 Love Marriage By V.V. Ganeshananthan Random House; 302 pages; $14 paperback When the world was enthralled by the fairy tale romance of Charles and Diana, many Indians were nonplussed. To them it...
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DeGeneres announces engagement to de Rossi
Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," telling the studio audience the news that the California Supreme...
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James Dunn loves the stage too much to exit it
"Someone said, 'I thought you were going to retire.' Well, if I did, what would I do? I'm not the kind of guy who plays golf. I don't want to sit in a rocking chair on a porch. I'm a show business guy." Indeed he is. True, James Dunn, 75, retired in 1994 from...
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Music review: Symphony shows 2 Brahms facets
For a fully rounded musical portrait of the young Brahms, you could do worse than to pair his First Piano Concerto with the Serenade No. 2 in A. That's what Michael Tilson Thomas did in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, in the second installment of the...
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Terry Disley follows his muse to San Francisco
It was the bloke upstairs they called Uncle George who got Terry Disley hooked on playing the piano. Uncle George would come downstairs for parties at the Disleys' London flat and slay the crowd with rollicking tunes like "Roll Out the Barrel." Young Terry...
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Review: Ilkhom Theatre's journey to 'Ecstasy'
The dancers undulate with the sensual grace of anemone tentacles or blossoms opening. One after another, then in sultry unison, the slender bodies of the dancing boys succumb to waves of energy that rise from their ankles and ripple through thighs, bellies,...
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