On October 16, 2010, Iowa Farm Bureau reports that Chris Norton was just 18 years old, playing college football for Luther in Decorah when any player s worst nightmare occurred. Chris was on the kickoff coverage team and, as his website says, I saw the opening for a tackle, but I mistimed my jump by a split second. Instead of being in front of the ball, I collided with the ball carrier s legs. And in an instant, I lost all feeling and movement from my neck down. Chris was told by a doctor that he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. The doctor underestimated Chris Norton.
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre Ushers In Virtual Series of Plays
The show must go on. Kalamazoo Civic Theatre will stage a series of productions that will be performed live and streamed to your living room.
You know your favorite bartender or server has missed you, and musicians are craving an audience to play for, but don t forget the thespians. Actors live for the moment and live theatre. Yes, countless hours of rehearsal and preparation go into a production, but each performance is unique. To quote Hamlet, the play s the thing.
You need three things in the theatre the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.
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âThere are two types of people in this world,â says Rosamund Pikeâs character with deliciously twisted vim in the opening scene of her new Netflix film,
. âThe people who take, and those getting took. Predators and prey. Lions and lambs. My name is Marla Grayson, and Iâm not a lambâI am a fucking lioness.â
For all of the ferocity that bubbles under the surface of Pikeâs Golden Globeânominated performance as this self-proclaimed lioness, itâs her icy exterior and the businesslike efficiency with which she executes her ruthless grift that feels most terrifying of all. Marlaâs modus operandi is as follows: Through a network of doctors and nursing home managers whom she keeps on payroll, she targets lonely senior citizens with false diagnoses of dementia, gets herself appointed as their legal guardian, locks them up in a home, then cuts herself outsize checks from