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| US television, Twitter, alive with new version of “Sound of Music” Posted: 05 Dec 2013 08:48 PM PST Filmed on vast movie sets and with lavish costumes but without an audience, the NBC television broadcast harked back to the traditions of the 1950s and 1960s when live musicals were often shown on American television. Yesterday's three-hour show was based on the 1959 stage version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show rather than the Oscar-winning 1965 musical starring Julie Andrews. After heavy promotion for weeks, the live broadcast was the No. 2 topic on Twitter yesterday, behind the death of South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. But not everyone found the new version one of their favourite things, with many viewers taking to social media to snipe over the quality of Underwood's acting and bemoan a lack of atmosphere and chemistry between some of the key characters. "Don't get me wrong. I love me some Carrie Underwood but I am not digging this version," tweeted TV viewer Heather Whitford. "Nothing will beat an original, but doing this live on TV is amazing!" countered Lonz on the micro-blogging website. Underwood, 30, who has become one of America's biggest country stars since winning "American Idol" in 2005, has scant experience as an actress. "I just want to say before the craziness starts... I am truly honoured to be in #TheSoundofMusicLive. This is an exciting/moving moment," Underwood tweeted before the broadcast from New York got under way. Moyer, 44, is best known as the star of HBO's quirky vampire drama "True Blood". While not known as a singer, he performed in a musical version of "Chicago" at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this year. Moyer played the strict widower with seven children who falls in love with aspiring nun Maria, played by Underwood, on the cusp of World War Two. Veteran Broadway stars Audra McDonald (Mother Abbess), Laura Benanti (Elsa Schrader) and Christian Borle (Max Detweiler) rounded out the cast. More than a year ago, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron came up with the idea of doing a live version of "The Sound of Music" - whose hit songs "My Favourite Things" and "Edelweiss" have made it a beloved musical for several generations. They told Reuters earlier that they hoped it would spark a resumption of the tradition of showing live musicals on US television. - Reuters, December 6, 2013. |
| Indian court orders fresh trial for Bollywood’s Khan Posted: 05 Dec 2013 06:31 PM PST Khan, 47, is alleged to have driven his Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle onto a pavement and over five sleeping homeless people in suburban Mumbai, killing one and injuring four others. During the decade-long court proceedings, Khan initially faced lesser charges of rash and negligent driving. But prosecutors secured a charge of culpable homicide earlier this year. On the basis of the more serious charge, Khan applied for a fresh trial discarding earlier evidence. This was granted by Mumbai Judge D.W. Deshpande yesterday, the Press Trust of India reported. Deshpande said all the witnesses would be examined and cross-examined again in the fresh trial, which would be put on fast-track mode. He fixed December 23 for the prosecution and defence to submit their lists of witnesses, after which a trial date would be fixed. Prosecutors objected to a fresh trial, calling it a "stalling tactic" by the actor, India's NDTV news network reported. Khan faces a jail term of up to ten years if found guilty. The actor has been a controversial figure since he first broke into Bollywood in the late 1980s in the hit romance film "Maine Pyar Kiya" (I Fell in Love). In 1998 he spent more than a week in prison for killing endangered Indian gazelles in the western state of Rajasthan. - AFP, December 6, 2013. |
US television was alive with "The Sound of Music" yesterday as country singer Carrie Underwood (pic) and "True Blood" actor Stephen Moyer starred in a live version of the classic musical about an aspiring nun who falls in love with an Austrian captain.
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