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...However, architect Camille Victor had a different experience...
...that the FBI says was the murder weapon, renting the room from which the shot was allegedly fired and being in Memphis when the killing occurred. Dexter King's credulity suggests the Kings have fallen under the hypnotic spell of William F. Pepper, Ray's current lawyer and the architect of a breathtakingly convoluted conspiracy theory about the assassination. They should step back from the brink...
...serious inquiries about the old theaters, one came from a mud-wrestling entrepreneur, another from Michael Eisner. Disney's chairman became interested in owning a theater in New York because the company's theatrical version of Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street, is a member of Disney's board. Stern told Eisner about the New Amsterdam. On a grim winter day, Stern and Cora Cahan took Eisner, his wife and son on a tour of the theater, shuttered since...
Today water no longer pours through the New Amsterdam's ceiling dome, once again surrounded by a thick garland of red berries and hydrangea wreaths, blue-glazed peacocks and 10-ft.-long angels. The work involved many subtle calibrations. The architect, Hugh Hardy, aimed for a final product that would return the theater to its original state yet allow it to look as if it had been gently lived in for 30 years or so. "There is," he observes, "an inherent conflict in preservation between conservation, which means you keep everything that's original and try not to have...
DIED. JACQUES FOCCART, 83, leading architect of French policy in Africa and adviser to four French Presidents, including Charles de Gaulle; in Paris. An important figure in the Gaullist movement, he operated in clandestine circles to maintain France's power in its former African colonies...