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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Saturday, Nov 08, 2008
Massillon and the Met. Massillon native Richard Paul Fink can be seen playing scientist Edward Teller in the opera Doctor Atomic in seven area cinemas at 1 p.m. today.
The production is part of the Metropolitan Opera's ''live in HD'' initiative featuring feeds of productions in New York City. It will be presented at Montrose Movies 12, Severance Stadium 14, Cinemark 14, Tinseltown USA, Southpark Mall, Cinemark 24 and Crocker Park Stadium 16. Buy tickets at http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/.
From composer John Adams, the opera looks at the brilliant, controversial J. Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley) and the development of the atomic bomb.
It is the first contemporary opera offered in the ''live in HD'' series this season, as well as the only one in English. The theatrical feed also indicates it will be more elaborate than that seen by people in the audience in New York, with ''technical effects that will be greatly enhanced through the high-definition broadcast, including elaborate audio designed to create radio static, sounds of the time period or, of course, the devastating explosion, as well as special video effects that will immerse the theater audience in Oppenheimer's world.''
Fink, a baritone, has played Teller before, in the San Francisco Opera's world premiere production of Doctor Atomic. Other performances include the title role in Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin and Alberich in Wagner's Ring Cycle.
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Rebound News. Kendra Wilkinson, one of the stars of The Girls Next Door and a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett, Hef told Usmagazine.com.
Hef said he had given his blessing to the match and will be giving her away in a wedding ceremony at the Playboy Mansion in June.
While the 82-year-old Hefner also split with Holly Madison in October (and she is now dating Criss Angel), the skin-mag mogul has no reason to mope. According to Usmagazine.com, he is now dating 19-year-old twins.
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Creative Kills. To mark the 150th episode of CSI: Miami on Monday, CBS sent out a list of the 150 crimes that the show has solved during its run. Interestingly, not one involves a character laughing himself to death over David Caruso's performance.
You can find all 150 in my blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com. But to give you a taste, here are a dozen: thrown from airplane, shot by rivet, shot and eaten by a shark, necklace bomb, doused in cognac and sent over a cliff, poisoned condom, shot by a sniper, tortured with office supplies, bled out by leeches, ignited ingested gasoline with a cell phone, fell repeatedly and suffocated with a carpet swatch.
Which makes me compelled to add, please, don't try this at home.
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New Palin Gig? Cleveland's own Andy Borowitz recently joked that Sarah Palin now wants to be ''ambassador to the nation of Africa.''
''I have always been very, very interested in the nation of Africa, partly because of it being located where it is,'' Borowitz quoted Palin as saying. ''If you are standing in Africa and you look real close, you can see South Africa.''
Yes, Africa is a continent. And Fox News recently reported that Palin didn't know that.
You can read the full piece, and other Borowitz humor, at http://www.borowitzreport.com. Another recent item: ''Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats.''
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
Massillon and the Met. Massillon native Richard Paul Fink can be seen playing scientist Edward Teller in the opera Doctor Atomic in seven area cinemas at 1 p.m. today.
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