Arts&Entertainment: December 11, 2001
Connick works his cool
TAMPA -- Harry Connick Jr. brought a bit of New Orleans sass to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on Monday. The 34-year-old crooner and piano player treated a couple thousand fans to tunes both old and new. Several of them, including Connick's encore Mardi Gras In New Orleans, celebrated his beloved Crescent City hometown.
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The much-hyped film version of The Lord of the Rings was launched Monday at a glitzy world premiere in London attended by stars Liv Tyler (Arwen Undomiel), Christopher Lee (Saruman the White), Ian McKellen (Gandalf the wizard) and Elijah Wood, the actor charged with bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbit Frodo Baggins to life.
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