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...people, and I wound up seeing all of them in one motion picture. I paid good money and spent two hours sitting in the dark like a captive, waiting to be rescued by some redeeming goodness--in vain. That was my experience of seeing American Beauty! R. FREDERICK GRACE Alhambra, Calif...
...Best Actor in a Supporting Role" goes to both veteran Fenton and new-comer Lee Poulis '02 as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. Fenton carries off the part of the enterprising, officious windbag with the perfect amount of dull pomposity and cornball silliness and is matched by Kristin Brouwer in the part of the saucy but snotty, Duchess. Poulis mixes equal parts stodgy bureaucrat, fiendish Inquisitor and lecherous old man to take the typical Gilbert and Sullivan "uptight official" role to new, uproariously deadpan heights...
...this is water, whose conspicuous display and consumption is as important a sign of luxury, of control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago. Nobody grasps this better than Wynn. To install performing dolphins in huge saltwater tanks in a hotel in the Nevada desert seems, on the face of it, about as rational as filling a cruise ship with sand and camels, but it has its own value as spectacle. And nowhere in Vegas is water...
...bring Suma Ching Hai into focus, imagine Martha Stewart as the Dalai Lama. The Supreme Master, 46, is an elegant hostess--and clever merchandiser. At a vegetarian dinner with a TIME correspondent last week in Alhambra, California, she wore a bright yellow dress that she designed herself--embroidered with the Supreme Master monogram (SM) and available to followers by catalog. When she gestured with her hands, she flashed gold and diamond rings with the SM design, part of her Celestial Jewelry collection--available by catalog as well. (Also for sale: Celestial purses, hats, gold dinnerware, chopsticks, inspirational videos, floor lamps...
BORN: Feb. 14, 1929, Walsenburg, Colo. EDUCATION: Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, 1959 FAMILY: Wife, Elvira Yorba; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Marines, 1947-50 OCCUPATION: Upholstery-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Monterey Park mayor, 1974-75; California Assembly, 1981-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 732, Alhambra...