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NEWS BRIEFS musical to premiere in Atlanta NEW YORK The baseball lm Bull Durham is hoping to be a hit onstage. Producers of a new musical version plan to stage their show at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in September 2014. Academy Award nominee Ron Shelton, who directed and wrote the movie, has adapted his screenplay. Kip Fagan will direct. Casting and a production schedule will be announced later.

The lm starred Kevin Costner as a veteran minor-league catcher assigned to handle the wild new pitcher, LaLoosh, played by Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon played a longtime fan who becomes romantically involved with both men. Four new Matildas set to take the Broadway stage NEW YORK A new batch of Matildas are en route to Broadway. Producers of the hit British import Matilda the Musical have tapped Paige Brady, Gabriella Pizzolo, Ripley Sobo and Ava Ulloa as the next group who will rotate playing the telekinetic heroine at the Shubert Theatre. The four will replace Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro, who all received Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, a noncompetitive commendation.

Ten-year-old Paige, from the Philadelphia area, is making her Broadway debut, as is 10-year-old Gabriella, from upstate New York, and 9-year-old New York City native Ava. Ten-year-old Ripley, also from upstate New York, made her Broadway debut in Once. Kate Winslet gives birth to a son, her third child LONDON A spokeswoman for Kate Winslet says the actress has given birth to a son and is Publicist Laura Symons says Winslet had a boy, her third child, on Saturday at a hospital in southern England. She says mother and baby are both doing well. The name has not been announced.

This is 38-year-old rst child with husband Ned Rocknroll, whom she married last year. She has a daughter, Mia, and a son, Joe, from previous marriages to directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes. Rocknroll is the nephew of entrepreneur Richard Branson. Winslet won an Academy Award for best actress in 2008 for her performance in The Reader. Over 2M Xbox One units sold in rst 18 days NEW YORK Microsoft says more than 2 million of its Xbox One consoles have been sold since the launch 18 days ago.

That works out to an average of 111,111 units per day. And company cials say users have spent more than 83 million hours with the games, TV, and apps on Xbox One since the Nov. 22 launch. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of strategy and marketing for Xbox, says demand is exceeding supply in the 13 launch markets, with Xbox One sold out at most retailers. Its makers want the Xbox One to become a main entertainment hub.

It supplies a program guide for browsing on TV and highlighted in apps such as ix and Amazon. You can listen to music, view photos and make Skype video calls. Associated Press ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013 2D Kathy Willens The Associated Press The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is seen Dec. 4 in New York. By Leanne Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK Milk and spiders? Nine lazy Hansons? Sleep in heavenly peas? that time of year: holiday music time.

And with holiday music comes all the strange and twisted things we sometimes think hearing. Mondegreens, the moniker for misheard words in song, restricted to holiday standards, of course, but the old-timey language of some seems to serve as a botched-lyric magnet. Lest you think funny turns on song lyrics are the stuff of childhoods, Missy knows otherwise. an actress, comedian and co-owner of Planet Rose, a karaoke haven on Lower East Side. the biggest Christmas nerd, so always encouraging people to sing Christmas she said.

people are really surprised when they see what the real words Look no further than Snopes.com for handy examples submitted by readers of the website that collects and debunks urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors and misinformation. Noting that mondegreens parody, but words we actually think listening to, Snopes keeps a list of holiday gems. For Twelve Days of lawyers and lazy Later got geezers along with paltry tin-affair Those are in lieu of lords a-leaping, ladies dancing, geese a-laying and the obligatory partridge in a pear tree, FYI. If ever made it to the fourth verse of be relieved to know it include on milk and spiders, as we dream by the but rather: on conspire And that snowman you may or may not build in the meadow? You should pretend not and or and Just There are most nitely no in but In Claus Is to the big guy in red does this: a list, it Not this: a list, of chicken and Sometimes, said, an entire holiday song is one big She was thinking of the haunting yet beautiful to the ears of some critics of New co-written by Shane Mac- Gowen of the Celtic punk group The Pogues. An Irish immigrant recalling a Christmas Eve stay in a New York City drunk tank tells of an inebriated older cellmate whose rendition of a traditional ballad spins the thickly brogued narrator (MacGowen) into a raunchy imagining of a debauched life with the old female character.

a beautiful, beautiful song but people are always confused by what the words said. really hard to decipher the Not to get all wonky, but the song really a mondegreen. Grant Barrett, co-host of the public radio show on language, A Way with Words, de- nes mondegreens this way, explaining they can happen for poetry and other spoken language as well: mishearin where one word ends and another word begins. This is called misdivision. And sometimes mishearing a word itself.

It sounds like another word to you, and so you try to match that sound up with a word that you alread know that kind of ts into the plot, if there is one. And called he said. mind him. a lexicographer, and he claims he has no monde- greens of his own. said Barrett, in San Diego.

different. I always joke that I know the rst 10 percent of thousands of songs and The word mondegreen, he said, can be traced to Sylvia Wright and a column she wrote in Magazine in 1954 titled, Death of Lad Wright discovered that for years she had botched the last line of the rst stanza of the Scottish folk ballad Bonnie Earl How it goes, with spellings based on updates antiquated English: have slain the Earl of Moray, and laid him on the What she heard: have slain the Earl of Moray, and Lad Winslet Six geezers laying? Holidays bring on Christmas song botches The Twelve Days of Christmas The real words: lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing What some hear: lawyers leaving, nine lazy Hansons Winter Wonderland The real words: on conspire, as we dream by the re What some hear: on milk and spiders, as we dream by the re Santa Claus Is to Town The real words: making a list, checking it twice What some hear: making a list, of chicken and rice them to watch will entertain them for a few hours. Before you get started doing a project, explain to your children why you need to get this done, and how important it is that they cooperate by watching television or playing quietly in their room. Adults sometime assume children will understand what is happening around them, but children live in their own worlds and have to be told the of things. Taking a few minutes to sit down with them and explaining that you need to send Christmas cards out before Christmas Eve, and why this is important will give you more time to do it.

Remember that young children need your attention, so be prepared to take breaks and give them what they need. Stopping to play with your little ones for 10 minutes will give you another hour of uninterrupted time. The holidays are a great time to model to your children how to handle stress. Plan ahead, be patient, speak softly and model self-control, and you will have a more peaceful home during the holidays. Maria Luisa Salcines is a freelance writer, and certi- ed parent educator with The International Networ for Children and Familie in Redirecting Behavior and Redirectin for a Cooperative Classroom.

Follow her on Twitter Family or contact her a her website at www. redirecting childrenrgv.org. SALCINES From Page 1D.