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...directors of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra cast around for a conductor to save their troubled orchestra in 1968, they threw out all the stereotypes and selected a man who looked, according to one Chicago musician, like a "tennis player or shortstop or golfer" on the podium. He was also bald and aging. Looks aside, Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony were made for each other Together they are producing some of the world's most exciting music...
...plots, too, have less potential than in Striptease. In Repeat Performance, Hitler's ghost returns to haunt Daddy, first as a garishly dressed woman and then as a bald-headed soldier. The Ghost reproaches Daddy for ceasing to love him, and then attempts to seduce Daddy's son. (Daddy, meanwhile, is running off with his daughter-in-law, She. The purpose of this subplot is never made quite clear.) With uncharacteristic heavy-handedness, Mrozek ends the play by blatantly stating his main point in the Ghost's last lines: "Time for me to go. But I'll be back. Tomorrow...
...movie the theater had been scheduled to show, State of Siege. His reason: he thought that the film seemed to rationalize assassination. Directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras, the movie is a fictionalized account of the real-life killing of an American official in Uruguay. Calling Stevens' action bald censorship, directors of as many as a third of the films to be shown in the opening festivities withdrew, leaving Stevens with a blank screen to fill-and a perhaps lasting legacy of bitterness for the fledgling film institute...
...York City Opera's new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord. In his new role, Sir Rudolf was an absolute lamb: early to rehearsals, a dear at taking direction and patience itself while his flowing gray wig was being glued on his bald head. But all the divas he has put down must have loved Critic Harold Schonberg's New York Times review: "In future performances Sir Rudolf will doubtless know what to do with his hands and feet...
Look quick. The old bald American eagle may soon be clutching dollar signs instead of the arrows and the olive branch...