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May 16, 2002

Arts&Entertainment: May 16, 2002
McCartney still a classic
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[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
TAMPA -- For years, he was the Beatle it wasn't cool to love.
Tampa native named WEDU head
He's been a bookstore owner, TV station general manager and head of the U.S. agency that ran the much-maligned Radio and TV Marti.

Baryshnikov's variety compelling
CLEARWATER -- Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project took us places familiar and unknown Tuesday at Ruth Eckerd Hall.

In the news
Bobbitt out of "Boxing'

Midnight 'Attack' draws a crowd
Ken McQueen of St. Petersburg won the space race Wednesday morning, beating two other early risers to be first in line at R/C Theaters Parkside 16 in Pinellas Park for the midnight debut of Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones. Although theaters all around the Tampa Bay area were showing the movie at midnight to take full advantage of today's opening, Parkside 16 is one of only two theaters in Florida able to show George Lucas' latest epic in digital projection.

Transcending generations
Concert ticket prices have gone way, way up since 1964. But for real fans, the "prophet for peace" is worth every penny.

Entertainment headlines from the wire

  • Ruben Studdard to Record Video in Alabama
  • Stewart Quits Top Posts After Indictment
  • FCC Hearing Draws Media Merger Criticism
  • TampaBay.com


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