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Scaling the steps of Widener is the closest most contemporary Harvard students have come to mountain climbing.But now the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) is set on revitalizing its faded legacy with an August trek to southeast Kyrgzstan, a country that borders Kazakhstan...
Like many of the tales in August Wilson's plays, this one reverberates across generations. Years later, Paramount was trying to make a movie out of Wilson's play Fences, and Barry Levinson was interested in directing. Wilson thought of his mother when he nixed the idea, insisting that the play--about a former Negro League baseball player struggling to support a family in 1957--must be directed by an African American: "Man, I'm thinking, 'Something is not always better than nothing.' She influenced me in ways like that...
...upwards of 2,000 productions in regional theaters across the country. And now, finally, they are complete: the 10th play, Radio Golf, will open this week at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn. Wilson, an inveterate rewriter, will keep fine-tuning the play as it moves in August to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and later, presumably, to Broadway. And then we can truly take the measure of one of American theater's monumental achievements--and an artist who, in creating something where there was almost nothing, realized that for a project this big and this...
...magic: ghosts, visions, seers and a matriarchal figure named Aunt Ester, who recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first act of an August Wilson play probably isn't being honest), but build to thrilling, sometimes violent, often otherworldly, climaxes. And although the last one, Gem of the Ocean, almost didn't make it to Broadway (after an investor pulled out, producer Carol Shorenstein Hays, who had backed Fences, put in $1 million to save...
...DIED. VU KY, 84, former personal secretary and confidante of 24 years to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh; in Hanoi. Born to civil servant parents, Ky joined anti-French revolutionary movements as a student in Hanoi, and joined Ho after the August Revolution of 1945, in which Ho declared Vietnam's independence from France. Ky was said to have witnessed Ho writing his will and testament and was trusted to keep the documents from 1965 until the leader's death four years later...