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...then a lonely pursuit. "The collaborative element of those years was crucial," remembers Composer Philip Glass. "I mean, you'd walk down the street and run into Lucinda Childs or Bob Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham or John Cage. It was like people say Paris was in the '20s...
Hollywood thinks so too. Director Herbert Ross, who did Funny Girl and Footloose, is considering her, he says, for the lead in a movie about Stripper Blaze Starr. Producer Ray Stark has talked with her about starring in a film about Libby Holman, the '20s and '30s torch singer. "Considering" and "talking with" do not cost much, of course, but Madonna's considering is moving in the same direction. "I don't think of myself as a rock star," she tells an interviewer as she cools out in her hotel room after her concert two weeks ago in New Orleans...
Because he is English and revels in satire, Boyd has often been compared to Evelyn Waugh. The comparison does not really work; he has neither Waugh's masterly style nor his free-floating malice. Also, when Waugh wrote his comic gems in the '20s and '30s, it was still possible to have a truly innocent hero, like Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost...
...order to do some comparison shopping for fiscal 1987. Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska reflects sentiment in the Senate for backing the F-20. In a hearing last month, he warned the Air Force, "You're going to get some F-20s this / year whether you like...
...money of his own, and he had married the beautiful and exceedingly wealthy Edwina Ashley. It was a stormy union, marked by his many affairs and her infatuations, including one with Jawaharlal Nehru, but it lasted until Edwina's death in 1960. Stationed in Malta in the late '20s, the couple kept a 66-ton yacht in the harbor. Noel Coward, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and an assortment of royals were their houseguests...