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Friday, April 22. “Bach Society Orchestra with Bradley Balliett.” Paine Hall. 8 p.m. $8; students and seniors. $6 Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...cool $5 million because he had spotted something that he liked. "I see a college whose focus is clearly directed to individual student development," said Lang as he bathed in the cheerful homage of some 500 educators and well-wishers, while a brass quintet serenaded them with strains of Bach and Gabrieli...
There is no question, according to Gerhard Herdegen, head of the Aliens-bach polling institute in Bonn, that West Germans "want to see the East and West blocs dissolved and the borders loosened," but they do not know how that goal can be reached. Another pollster, Hermann Bausinger of the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Tbingen, detects "a great insecurity about where the future will lead us all." The feeling, Bausinger finds, is strongest among intellectuals and young people...
Streisand reneges, or Auerbach misunderstands. In any case, Bach is canned, United Artists is sold to MGM, and La Ronde, Hollywood executive-style, continues. Bach writes about all these shenanigans with due sardonic edge, and includes deft vignettes about Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Martin Scorsese. But his portrait of Cimino, who did not cooperate in the writing of the book, strains for a balance that Bach finally cannot strike. He berates Cimino for rampant egomania and describes a conflict of interest regarding the director's choice of a location. Land that United Artists had cleared...
That aim, at least, has become a little easier to judge, now that the dust has settled. Heaven's Gate did not help United Artists, but it did not wreck it either. It was the symbolic point on which the company finally foundered, while the film itself, for which Bach has little remaining regard, endures. It was ecstatically reviewed in London when the uncut version was released there in 1983 and actually brought a few dollars' profit into the distribution coffers. Technology will ultimately settle the score. The full version of Heaven's Gate is available at the neighborhood video...