Chocolate

Boston.com – By Wesley Morris – Globe Staff

It’s called “Chocolate,” but “Cheese” would have been just as good. Soaked with tears, full of schmaltz, and yet strewn with bodies, Prachya Pinkaew’s new kick-’em-up is extreme action, extreme melodrama, …

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Opera Queen

Hour.ca – Richard Burnett

The very day al-Qaeda terrorists flew two jetliners into NYC’s World Trade Center on 9/11, Luc Plamondon was in Paris watching a one-night-only revival of his famous rock musical Starmania, in which terrorists bomb the 121…

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Shacking up

HonoluluWeekly.com – Darby Murphy

TrannyShack – The transvestite’s here, the beers are on me! —Eddie Izzard

Throughout history, societies have been amused and offended by cross-dressers and transvestites. Shakespeare’s plays never allowed real wo…

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