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Julie Taymor was doing “backyard theatre” at the age of 7, was a member of the Boston Children’s Theatre Company by the age of 11, and traveled in Sri Lanka as a teenager. She says her parents gave her the freedom to be herself, and to follow her interests no matter how far away those interests took her. Taymor also told Moriarty that she was so emotionally close to her parents that she never really felt far from home. From her travels — especially the four years she spent as a young woman in Indonesia — Taymor got insights and skills that informed all of her later work, including “The Lion King.” This show has been widely praised as an innovative stage work unlike anything that came before. What she proposed to Disney as her best idea, while admitting others would also work, was the most original and therefore the riskiest. Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time. Taymor believed in this concept and Disney believed in her. So Taymor’s best artistic vision is what “Lion King” audiences see. This past spring “The Lion King” opened in Johannesburg. Taymor says for her and those she worked with to create the show, that was “the most thrilling, moving experience of our lives —...

(AP) MOSCOW – Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping playfully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size. But Yasha’s life was cut short this week: After snacking on something in a Moscow park, she fell into a seizure at Lesovets’ apartment and began foaming at the mouth. The family rushed her to a nearby animal clinic, where the veterinarian said this was the sixth case he had seen that week, and there was nothing he could do. On Friday police opened a criminal investigation into what they suspect are poisonings by dog killers. Cruelty to animals is common in Russia and animal protection laws are rarely enforced, 카지노 꽁 but reports of as many as 70 dead dogs this week have spurred the police to take action. While some residents suspected that a vigilante matriarch, wary of her children being bitten, might be the cause of the attacks, Lesovets was quick to suspect a more malicious culprit: dog hunters, a kind of deadly hobby gaining ground in the Russian online community. Dog hunting forums — the most well-known of which are Vreditelyam.net and Pest.net — are populated by those who call themselves “volunteers” and provide graphic photos of their trophy killings. The sites require extensive registration and identification processes for participants. “It’s a whole community. They have websites,”...

For more lighthearted entertainment, rent “Shrek The Third” on DVD or pick up a copy of Duran Duran’s new album. MOVIES In the future, could an ocean by itself power an entire city? In “Southland Tales,” it does – with some rather catastrophic consequences. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore stars in this sprawling epic about a futuristic version of Los Angeles that harnesses the power of the ocean to produce energy. In a legendary time of heroes, the mighty warrior “Beowulf” battles the demon Grendel and incurs the hellish wrath of the beast’s ruthlessly seductive mother. Their epic clash, which stars Ray Winstone in the title role and Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie in the supporting cast, forges the timeless legend of Beowulf. Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman star in “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium”, a tale about the most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world – but also the strangest. When Mr. Magorium, the store’s 243-year-old owner, bequeaths ownership to its manager, a dark and ill-omened change begins to take over. PBS’ “Nova” airs its newest two-hour program “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”on Tuesday at 8 p.m. and revisits the federal case of Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District, which became the first legal test of intelligent design (the idea that life is too complex to have...