There was little to love in "The Phantom Menace, " and I was so ready to love it.

CNN: 'Star Wars' in 3-D: 'The fool, or the fool who follows him?'

Ball, who has starred in The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects Of Love, Les Miserables and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, will perform hits from West End and Broadway musicals.

BBC: Last Night at the Proms

"Without intending to, Merz provoked a kind of phantom pain: he reminded the Germans, caught between love of homeland and yearning for Europe, of their amputated leg: national identity, " the paper says.

BBC: President not 'proud' to be German

Old man Hearst's first paper and lifelong love, the San Francisco Examiner, is now a pitiful phantom, restricted to an afternoon publish (and thus a horrible circulation) by a binding agreement with the San Francisco Chronicle.

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