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...First he was a butcher, then a barber...always cutting." Now he's retired, and so are the rest of them, but they keep active. The members of the self-styled Orchard Beach Retirement Club in New York City spend every day at the beach, and one proudly recalls, "We were here when it went below zero. We're here when it's raining and when it's snowing...
...little after 5, Reagan thinks about getting his weekly haircut from Barber Milton Pitts. He starts in that direction, then changes his mind and returns to the Oval Office for his daily wind-up session with Deaver, Meese and Baker, each of whom he has seen on and off throughout the day. This meeting is a quick one; the staffers stand around the desk...
...Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup man and Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad. Luigi Galbani, 63, the barber at Rome's Excelsior Hotel, intervened. "II Duce," he declared, "was completely bald." That settled it. No one could doubt the word of a man who once wielded the razors at Mussolini's Ministry of the Interior. Said Galbani: "I shaved him several times - both his face and head...
That is provided by William Weaver's The Golden Century of Italian Opera, a lavishly illustrated account of the glorious years from 1815 to the mid-1920s, from The Barber of Seville to Turandot. "All we contemporary composers, without exception, are so many pygmies beside this great master," Bellini said of Rossini. But he was wrong. Geniuses followed each other like monarchs in a royal procession: Bellini himself, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini. Opera lovers became so accustomed to dazzling new works that they thought the parade would never end, that the extraordinary had become the usual...
DIED. Samuel Barber, 70, American composer whose lyrical music won him international popularity; of cancer; in New York City. Celebrated in his 20s for works like the Overture for the School for Scandal, he later won Pulitzer prizes for his opera Vanessa and for Piano Concerto No. 1. His grand effort, Antony and Cleopatra, was a rare failure for a composer who loved and understood the human voice and stood apart from avant-garde trends...