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...Over the summer the magazine's assistant editor, Rod Liddle, was savaged for weeks in multiple newspapers by his estranged wife, Rachel Royce, for conducting a long affair with a young assistant. Liddle retaliated in kind - a mesmerizing trench war of invective and betrayal that proved, if nothing else, that they both can write. Earlier last month the Spectator's editor, the tousle-haired, rumpled and voluble Boris Johnson - who is also a Member of Parliament, one of the Conservative Party's few truly popular figures, and a married father of four - was revealed to be conducting what Royce, writing...
MUSIC | Harvard-Radcliffe ChorusThe 165-voice choir kicks off its 2004 season, welcoming new conductor, Dr. Kevin C. Leong. The program will be an all-Mozart affair, including Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Missa brevis in F and the ever-popular Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Featuring soprano Amanda Forsythe. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $16/$14, $8/$7 for students and seniors. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...
...world. The Creative Coalition’s invite-only VIP gala drew congressional bigwigs and Hollywood-types alike, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ben Affleck, Alyssa Milano and a Baldwin brother. You too can make like the rich and famous and host a posh wine and schmoozing affair in the store’s Restaurant L, which features minimalist slate gray walls, weird-looking flowers and hip-looking people. Select from an hors d’oeuvres list that includes prawn tempura, soybean wontons and crab cakes with avocado mousse and cotton candy. Manager and sommelier Brick Loomis promises...
...Tony-winning play about a rancorous married couple, raised temperatures, eyebrows and hackles throughout the film world. As Nichols recalls, "We weren't allowed to say 'Screw you' in Virginia Woolf. We had to take it out." His next film, The Graduate, in 1967, detailed the passive, loveless affair between a young man and his girlfriend's mother, and daringly mixed physical comedy with the most desperate romance. His boldest film was 1971's Carnal Knowledge, which traced 30 years in the sexual lives of two perpetually immature men. The excoriating chatter in Jules Feiffer's screenplay would be familiar...
...scheme of Closer is simple: two people become a couple, break up, pair off with someone new. Dan and Alice become a couple, then Anna and Larry, then Dan and Anna and, briefly, Larry and Alice. We are shown only the beginning and end of each affair, when hopes are surging or betrayal sours the air. The piece is a series of cardiograms: hearts open and shut down. "Have you ever seen a human heart?" says Larry, a doctor. "It looks like a fist soaked in blood...