| the latest movie to become a musical.. Ghost | | http://www.wsmv.com/entertainment/18886362/detail.html?treets=nash&tid=2657537830813&tml=nash_ent&tmi=nash_ent_1_11150103092009&ts=H#-[i]"A musical version of the hit movie "Ghost" will steam up a stage in London next year.Many of the same people who created the 1990 Movie with Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, will work on the play.Variety said that Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and Glen Ballard, the songwriter-producer who did Alanis Morissette's album "Jagged Little Pill," will write the music and lyrics.Bruce Joel Rubin, who won an Oscar for writing the movie's screenplay, will write the book for the musical.Casting has yet to be announced.The film earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Goldberg."[/i]i hate musicals.. so im not amused that they are going to take another movie and make it into one.. but for those that actually like musicals do you think this will actually fly? | |
| | Merriam-Webster's Word Of '07: 'W00t' | | I just seen this on CBS News. Here is what they had to say.
Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t.""W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.
Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology."It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said.
Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" _ that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.
For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.
Purists of "l33t speak" often substitute a "7" for the final "t," expressing a... | |
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