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a. The Outsiders. A gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel won the Tony Award for best new musical. The musical based on the beloved S. E. Hinton book is about rival gangs of haves and have-nots in 1960s Oklahoma. The musical’s director Danya Taymor became the sixth woman to win a Tony award for directing a musical, following in the footsteps of her aunt Julie Taymor, who was the first woman to win the award.
c. American Fiction. The film stars Jeffrey Wright as an African-American novelist grappling with an industry that is limiting his work to trauma and poverty narratives. The film is half cultural satire and half rom-com, the Globe and Mail’s theatre critic Barry Hertz wrote in his review.
d. The Mickey Mouse Club. Timberlake began performing as a Disney Mouseketeer in 1993, where his castmates included Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell. He was released without bond after being arraigned in Sag Harbor and charged with a driving-while-intoxicated misdemeanour. His next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.
d. No one. The chanteuse is the film’s lone voice, writes Brad Wheeler in his review, no one else is interviewed, not even a doctor to explain the syndrome that caused the suspension of her career.
b. Linguistics. Chomsky’s universal grammar theory is based on the idea that all languages hold similar structures and rules.