Why did the British become so strong in racing car production?
If we came racing through production, experimenting all the way, it would have had a bigger impact.
Warner came up short at least one potential blockbuster when troubles with the script and other matters delayed "Justice League of America," a superhero film that was racing toward production when the writers struck last November.
Carousel, which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success, met with disaster.
NBC got a great deal: it paid nothing for the Cup races — the America's Cup Event Authority bought time on NBC and NBCSN and sold advertising to its sponsors — and used the race production that was hosted by the Cup.
"It's been 30 years since I stood onstage, and I really didn't think it would happen again in my lifetime," Ms. Tyson said of her role in "Bountiful," a mixed-race production in which she plays a character conceived for white actresses.
It runs from ballet to hip-hop, the cast is the most racially varied I've seen yet in a "Nutcracker" (when did anyone last see a group of black women on point in a mixed-race production?), and the emphasis is firmly multicultural.
The actor's father, the Hollywood director John Cromwell, was blacklisted in the fifties, but James didn't become politicized until 1964, when, at twenty-three, he joined the Free Southern Theatre and toured Mississippi and Louisiana, playing Pozzo in a mixed-race production of "Waiting for Godot".
"Underneath the glitter, wigs, and death drops, Drag Race tells stories of the tenacity of the human spirit," Randy Barbato, executive producer at Drag Race production company World of Wonder, told me.
According to the Road & Track Illustrated Automotive Dictionary, a ground effect is the "result of the partial vacuum between the road surface and the undercarriage of an automobile…occurs primarily with racing cars and production cars fitted with air dams [devices placed below cars' front fenders to redirect air that would flow under the car].
