Archive for October, 2009
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UPCOMING EVENT: PLAN “A” BABY
PLAN "A" BABY [BTW--I think this event is entitled “Plan {the letter A} Baby,” not “plan a baby”--at least I hope so because I, personally, am planning on NO babies!] Anyway, I just want to let the new moms out there know about an event o
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THEATRE: PARADE
PARADE When I think “musical,” Legally Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, and The Drowsy Chaperone come to mind. Not erroneous hangings. On opening night of Parade at the Mark Taper Forum, I seemed to be the only one who didn’t
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KAREN’S RANT: RIO OLYMPICS
RIO OLYMPICS The two important things you must know before reading this article are: 1) I doubt that there’s another human on earth who has watched more hours of Olympics coverage over her lifetime, and 2) I’m not particularly politica
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KAREN’S RANT: SERENA WILLIAMS RANT
SERENA WILLIAMS: TERRIBLE SPORT, AND KIND-OF SCARY, AS WELL Last month, in the semi-finals of the US Open, Serena Williams put on one of the worst displays of bad sportsmanship (actually, the BEST example of total lack of sportsmanship) I’
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THEATRE: WONDER OF THE WORLD
WONDER OF THE WORLD For the past year or so, I’ve severely limited my Equity Waiver play-going because I don’t love most of what I see and just don’t have that kind of time to spend on things I don’t love. But when I was invited to the openi
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THEATRE: LEGALLY BLONDE, THE MUSICAL
LEGALLY BLONDE, THE MUSICAL As a life-long goer to musicals, I realized my favorite ones are happy, the way a musical should be. I don’t need to see people splitting up, dying from aids (or anything else), having underage German sex, killing ot
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NEW YORK: CONEY ISLAND BOOM A RING CIRCUS
CONEY ISLAND BOOM A RING CIRCUS My regular readers and viewers probably know by now that I ran away and joined the circus as a teen-ager. (No joke.) And, though it was not my classiest moment in life, I still always love the circus in gener
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NEW YORK: HAMPTONS REPORT SUMMER 2009
This was my third summer in the vaunted Hamptons. The first year, I mostly hated it, last year was quite the opposite, and this year was a mixture of the two emotions. Some of no-enjoying-it had to do with the recurrence of an old arm injury (a bad t
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EVENT: MACY’S PASSPORT FASHION SHOW 2009
MACY’S PASSPORT FASHION SHOW 2009 This was the absolute best fashion show I’ve ever seen in my entire life!!! And I’ve been in many myself, first as a teen-age model, then in celebrity-charity ones while hosting my TV show, Karen’s R
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