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WIEGAND Domaine Dujac Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes Burgundy, 1999 IMMER Gosset Rose Champagne, nonvintage KOPEC Chateau Calon-Segur Bordeaux...
DIED. JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE, 78, abstract expressionist whose works hang in New York City's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Gallery; in Ile-aux-Grues, Que. Considered Canada's most important modern painter, he became the first Canadian to win a prize at the Venice Biennale...
...Aux armes, citoyens! Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...
...choreographer and founder of Britain's Royal Ballet; in London. De Valois was a classical ballerina by training, but as a director she often mounted wildly experimental productions, sending dancers to perform barefoot. A writer and an art lover, she sometimes brought drawings to life on her stage: Bar aux Folies-Bergere (1934), for instance, was inspired by a Manet painting of a Parisian lounge...
...Saint Tropez. His reel-life leading-man status translated to real-life heroism when he earned the Croix de Guerre for service in the French armed forces in 1944. An actor who performed on both the stage and silver screen--most notably as a randy swimming instructor in Lac aux Dames--Aumont was also a megastar with women. Although he married twice, he was more celebrated for his engagements to, among others, screen luminaries Hedy Lamarr and Grace Kelly...