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An Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. Committed to Diversity. NEW YORK (AP) — The new sound system at Lincoln Center has Beverly Sills singing the blues. Sills, a soprano and chairperson of Lincoln Center, said she attend ed a recent performance of the City Opera’s “II Viaggio a Reims" and could hear “a buzz, a sound in the air which makes me know some thing is there.” The women’s voices, she said, were “a little homogenous. There was a lack of contrast." “I’m not terrorized by this,” Sills said. “But I didn’t enjoy it.” The new system is made up of two dozen microphones around the stage and orchestra and more than ICO speakers in the 2,700-seat theater’s walls and under bal conies. The system was installed over the summer. Sills, the opera’s former general director, said that before the reno vation, the theater’s acoustics should be improved through struc tural changes rather than with mi crophones. “No matter what else happens, you’ve got to finish high school," the retired Gulf War general told a group of 500 Tuesday at Pearl- Cohn Comprehensive High School. “And beyond that, we expect you to go to college. Get all the education you can.” Powell, now working with a youth group, spoke at a kickoff ceremony for Project GRAD, a program to in spire students to graduate from high school and go to college. “If you don’t finish high school, you’re on your way to nowhere,” Powell said. Rudas, confirmed his company is in talks for a Three Tenors perfor mance in Sydney. “It’s not opening ceremony, but we have been approached to bring the Three Tenors to Sydney during the Olympics,” Rudas said. "We are talking about it, it is not 100 per cent. Unfortunately, this is the time of the start of the opera season, if we can find the right date, we would like to come.” Actor Rupert Graves comments on career Three Tenors want to perform at Olympics Powell urges youth to demand education NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Colin Powell urged a group of high school freshmen to fight for their right to an education. SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Lu ciano Pavarotti is looking for an other trip Down Under, and next time he would like to bring those oth er guys along. Pavarotti was in Sydney to open the newest Olympic venue, the Super- Dome. He said yester day he would like to return with Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo for a Three Tenors performance during the Games next September. “You want to invite me? I am very available,” Pavarotti said. Pavarotti’s producer, Tibor PAVAROTTI NEW YORK (AP) — Rupert Graves owes it all to Tomato the clown. Graves, the British star of Dream ing of Joseph Lees, dropped out of school at 15 and joined a circus. Graves described the experi ence. “I put up rigging, cleaned up af ter a show, put up posters, whatev er they asked. And finally, I became Tomato, the junior clown,” he said in Tuesday's Daily News. Graves, 36, started performing as Tomato at vacation spots around England and in children's plays. The work led to bit parts in films, and a casting person suggested he try for a part in A Room With a View. He got the part and said good bye to clowning. Graves said his new film, which opened recently, is “an English Gothic piece about rural madness.” He plays an adventurer who has Susan Egan speaks about new film Man of the Century NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Susan Egan looks like a hip chick, right down to her jet-black bob hair do and her slick leather jacket. But there really is a '20s flapper living inside this modern woman. She just needs a little old-fashioned romance to make her swoon. Egan gets plenty of that in Man of the Century. The film won the Audience Feature Award at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival. It is being released by Fine Line Features in major markets around the country. Although Man of the Century is set in present-day New York, Egan’s suitor Johnny Twennies (Gibson Fra zier) behaves like someone living in the Roaring ’20s. (His adventures are filmed in black and white.) He sweeps Egan off her feet by taking her dancing, sending her telegrams and popping into her office with flowers. He woes her with phrases like, “I went into this thing with my eyes open, and now I’m seeing noth ing but stars.” And that’s just fine by Egan. “I think all of us ... as much as we want to be treated as equals ... we also want to be treated like princesses,” the 29-year-old actress, whose char acter runs a SoHo art gallery in the film, said. She noted that swing dancing, supper clubs and other similar elements of ’20s culture are coming back in style. “Men in black ties and tails are gorgeous,” she said. The Green Hornet Radio Show 2 songs off our new album 5ft minutes of Confucionfenj Your Site for Digital Audio, Free Audio Software and Other Things to Stick in Your Ear. Annie moves from big sen to small sera NEW YORK (AP) -Y 0l not keep a good orphan fc Despite major plot surge nie has made a transfer to to screen, buoyed by a superit n the future an orphanage pit ersity of Texas The ratificati exas Higher Ec he now-stagnai ends for colleg theater veterans and the steady hand of director-cho:- pher Rob Marshall For those who came it the musical was based Orphan Annie,” comicstht In Annie, the story star; Warbucks, with Annie im York City over by Miss Hannigai meanest matron east on: the Hudson River. Annie sets out in search real parents. Instead, sheisi in by Warbucks, who saysii help her find them. The skimpy, but eventuallylo 1 , umphs over greed The key to theoriginalli way production’s success Miss Hannigan, played Dorothy Loudon. In Kathyl a worthy successor ha: found. 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