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Today the Lower Manhatten Development Corporation made public the seven shortlisted designs for Ground Zero. David D'Arcy, New York correspondent for the Art Newspaper reports for Front Row on the different ideas put forward.
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CHICAGO
David Gritten, film critic at the Daily Telegraph, and author of Fame - Stripping Celebrity Bare reviews Chicago, adapted from Bob Fosse's stage musical, which harks back to the jazz age of the 20s.

Chicago, certificate 12A opens exclusively at the Warner Village Cinema, Leicester Square on 26th December and nationwide on 17th January.
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NEW DIRECTOR FOR THE ROYAL BALLET
Former assistant director of the Royal Ballet, Monica Mason, has been promoted to the post of director following the resignation of its previous and controversial director, Ross Stretton. John Wilson talks to Monica Mason and Judith Mackrell, dance critic of The Guardian.
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GOODBYE MR CHIPS
Mark Lawson talks to Martin Clunes of Men Behaving Badly fame, who this Boxing Day stars in a television adaptation of James Hilton's novel Goodbye Mr Chips.

Goodbye Mr Chips is showing on ITV1 on Boxing Day, 8.30pm
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SPECIAL AGENTS' NIGHT OUT According to The Sun newspaper today, special agents are getting their own screening of the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day. Front Row imagines what going to that screening might be like.

Die Another Day is currently showing at cinemas nationwide
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