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...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...
...Eliot Spitzer story begins on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where both his parents grew up. His father Bernard was reared in a tenement with no heat, sharing a bathroom in the hall with the neighbors. Bernard, whose father had been an officer in the Austrian army, was intensely driven. He qualified for an elite school in the city and managed to graduate from City College at 18. A civil engineer by training, he went into real estate and made his fortune. He has constructed about a dozen properties in Manhattan, among them several high-end buildings...
Here's an American success story: an Austrian Jew arrives in the U.S. in 1934 knowing barely a word of English, and within a year he is writing screenplays in Hollywood. No wonder Billy Wilder's scintillatingly cynical heroes figured they could get away with murder, cross-dressing or "the girl"; they were reflections of their brilliantly duplicitous writer-director. And though his voice was caustically distinct, Wilder triumphed in a wide variety of genres. He made the sauciest farce (Some Like It Hot), the darkest film noir (Double Indemnity), the dearest romantic comedy (Sabrina) in Hollywood history--as well...
...controversies already settled. Instead of devoting extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobble up huge scoops of recycled news. Reading the newspapers this year was like settling back with some frozen-in-time Austrian Zeitung whose headline declares governor of Carinthia denies he worships Hitler. Wait, I think that really was in the Austrian papers this year. And in the New York Times, which I occasionally read during boring meetings, I found out that the Dow crawled back to 1997 levels and swept away...
...Choice, the new opera based on William Styron's best-selling 1979 novel. Because Sophie's Choice, which opened earlier this month at the Royal Opera House in London, is not your usual opera. When Kirchschlager, 37, was offered the title role a couple of years ago, the Austrian mezzo-soprano thought it was a romantic part - she assumed the heroine's choice was between two handsome suitors. She had not read Styron's book or seen Meryl Streep's harrowing, Oscar-winning performance in the 1982 film. But she accepted without hesitation. With relatively few leading roles for mezzos...