Following her sensational, scandalous debut in the 1943 film The Outlaw, she “went on to appear in 18 more films in the 1940s and ’50s and, though only a few were memorable, she remains a favorite from the era for her wry portrayals of sex goddesses who seem amused by their own effect.”
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Lauren Cuthbertson Escapes Rabbit-Hole of Illness to Create Ballet’s Alice
“Dancing Alice will complete [her] astonishing comeback from an illness that left her unable to make it out of her bed and wondering if she would ever dance again. Her body simply shut down months after her accession to principal; her doctors diagnosed glandular fever and ‘weeks and weeks would go by in a complete fog’.”
Beat Writer And Editor Jay Landesman, 91
“He was an animating figure in one countercultural scene after another: as the editor of Neurotica; as the founder of the Crystal Palace, a daring cabaret theater in his hometown, St. Louis; as a mixer, mingler and promoter in the swinging London of the early 1960s; and later as a bohemian at large.”
From Prodigy To Young Conductor
He claims never to have had a formal conducting lesson, and he certainly bypassed any kind of conservatory training. But he conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony at 19, made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at 21 and signed his first recording contract with Virgin/EMI at 22. On Thursday, at the relatively desiccated age of 35, Daniel Harding makes his debut with the New York Philharmonic.”
Opera Singer Thrown Out Of Cab In Vienna
The 27-year-old from California currently is currently starring in Benjamin Britten’s opera “The Rape of Lucretia” at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien opera house. “The driver said: ‘I don’t drive black women – get out!’ I did so – and started to cry. All I wanted in that moment was to get away from here.”
Anthony Hopkins, Composer
The Oscar winner “will participate in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s summer tour of Britain, on which the orchestra will perform the original scores he created for his films August and Slipstream, as well as a new work by the actor.”
The Man Who Turned TV Into Avant-Garde Art
“Early in the 1960s, avant-garde composer Nam June Paik began experimenting with the wiring inside his TV. He learned how to manipulate the picture on his screen, bending and warping network broadcasts like free jazz. In 1963, after accumulating and tweaking a dozen more televisions, Paik organised a gallery show in which people were invited to interact one-on-one with his contraptions – an unprecedented experience in an era before video cameras and cable stations.”
The Ballerina Who Sheltered South America’s Most Wanted Terrorist
Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru’s Shining Path guerilla movement, was hiding in the second floor apartment of Maritza Garrido Lecca’s dance studio when he was arrested in 1992. Nicholas Shakespeare, whose novel The Dancer Upstairs is about Guzman’s capture, visits Garrido Lecca in prison to compare the actual Maritza to the one he imagined.
The Oliver Sacks of Psychopathic Prisoners?
“When Kent Kiehl visits some of the most dangerous prisoners in US jails, he doesn’t just go to talk. He’s there to find out what’s different about the way their brains work. He [talks about] what insights this has revealed about the origins of psychopathic behaviour – and what they could mean for future treatment.”
Henry Miller’s Last Wife Speaks
“For Hoki Tokuda, the whole crazy affair was like an inside joke her ex-husband, the late author Henry Miller, would have found irresistible – if it weren’t all true.” This Japanese woman, nearly 50 years younger than the famously satyric author, married and hung onto him for for 11 years, though she wouldn’t sleep with him, wouldn’t kiss him and wouldn’t read Tropic of Cancer.