Lu-ceee!
The Redhead Is
a Stage Smash
Theater
Lionel Richie Goes Country
Music
Lionel Richie’s greatest hits get twangy on Tuskegee, the Alabama-raised star’s
first album of country duets. Richie lets guests like Blake Shelton (“You Are”),
Shania Twain (“Endless Love”), Tim McGraw (“Sail On”), and Jennifer Nettles
(“Hello”) do his music their way—steel guitars and all—proving he’d have fared
fine in Nashville if that Commodores thing hadn’t worked out. —Richard Gehr
The best TV show of the
season isn’t on the tube: I
Love Lucy Live on Stage, a
loving re-creation of two
episodes from the series,
has been a hit in an L.A.
theater this year, and a
national tour is planned for
2013 ( ilovelucylive.com).
Rather than try to mimic
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz,
Sirena Irwin and Bill
Mendieta capture
their characters—
and the seat-of-
your-pants
headiness
of 1950s
TV. Lucy
lovers who
miss this
will go,
“Waaah!”
—Bill Newcott
Wilkinson, center, with Dench and Nighy.
Move to India? Why, Sultan-ly!
Movie
In Tom
Wilkinson’s
delightful new
film, a bunch of
British retirees
move—sight unseen—to
an offbeat residential hotel
in crowded, colorful Jaipur,
India. Wilkinson’s character
seems most at home in the
exotic surroundings, but the
FOR GROWNUPS
two-time Oscar nominee
confesses that he suffered
serious culture shock while
filming The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel.
“There are some fantas-
tic things about India,” says
Wilkinson, who spent eight
weeks on location with
costars Judi Dench, Bill Nighy,
and Maggie Smith. “But
you’re aware all the time
of this great contrast be-
tween incredible wealth
and astounding poverty.
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