This week Warner Brothers joined the Walt Disney company in attempting to transform Broadway from a venue with a whisper of hope for social relevance into one that presents works that are the intellectual equivalent of a Mickey Mouse caper. As even the blind could foresee, the critics went for the jugular. As we often say about working with an idea that doesn�t have a life of its own, you can stand up a dead body, but you can�t make it sing and dance, and, once you let go, it�s bound to fall back down.

Hideaki Anno's �Shin Seiki Evangelion� was revolutionary for its time. It combined existential, psychological, and theological themes, and put them together with giant, bio-mechanical fighting machines as a backdrop. However, the show is best remembered for the myriad of psychological issues found in the cast.

Simply put, anime is a form of cartoon animation created in Japan, which explains animes formerly-popular moniker, Japanimation.

Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit.

Angelina Jolie, partner to Brad Pitt, is the star of several blockbuster movies. Among them Girl Interrupted and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, coincidentally where she met Pitt. But perhaps her most well known portrayal was as the buxom Lara Croft, in the Tomb Raider films.

Androgenetic alopecia a.k.a. male pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss among men and women. The only difference lies in the pattern of hair loss. The condition is called male pattern baldness in the case of men, and female pattern baldness in the case of women.

Curiously enough, the mummy�s bones revealed what at first appeared to be dichotomous lifestyles. She was apparently motherly, because bone evidence revealed that she had given birth to a child, but a variety hardly motherly clubs were also found buried with her. An archaeologist explained the seeming duality of tenderness and weaponry by stating, �My theory is that she went to the grave, regretting the tattoos and asked to be buried with clubs so she could ward off any evil spirits who might arrive to apply even more tattoos.�

If sometimes, weighed down with the complexities of uneasy empire, we perchance wonder if America could be freedom�s fading star, it�s somewhat reassuring to realize that the nation is so young it still does not recognize the existence of Americans. Even the Indians don�t completely get the nod, because they�re still camped out on reservations.

The lead attorny for America stated, "Will you please tell us what other country in the world, besides your own, you would prefer to possess the amount of power America has. We are, in fact, the first nation in the history of the world that could conquer it but, in addition to being freedom-loving people that the whole idea offends, we�re savvy business people to know we just can�t afford the worldwide upkeep. The only thing that stands in the way of a big win for the U. S. is finding a country where we can conduct the trial."

Melissa Etheridge has long been known as an artist who produces music that fits the core of what many consider �American Rock and Roll.� Her style combines folk, blues, rock and roll and searing guitar melodies that cut to the soul. Her wide-ranging style has captured the hearts and ears of millions of fans, and Etheridge is returning to the stage in the summer of 2006. A look at her life will at least partially explain how her style came to be. Early Life Etheridge was...