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EVENT: The American Opera Project has taken on...baseball? Tonight they present Baseball Through The Eye of the Artist. You'll catch some scenes from Daniel Sonenberg's opera-under-development The Summer King. And stick around for Bang The Drum Slowly, "the acclaimed 1973 baseball film that marked the beginning of Robert DeNiro's illustrious film career."

, don't subject us to this.

This morning's subway commute made us do a double take. Because we saw Jerry Orbach looking at us and the other riders from an ad! The Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to become eye donors. As it happens, today, the Daily News has a story about the Orbach donation:

The Broadway and TV star donated his eyes when he died in December 2004, giving sight to two women who needed new corneas.

Are they Hong Kongers or Thai? That's what the L.A. Times tries to figure out when they focus on Asian directors Darren and Oxide Pang whose film The Eye opens today. Gothamist feels they must be Hong Kongers - only Hong Kong parents would choose the name "Oxide."

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