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Cenerentola is less popular than Rossini's The Barber of Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita...
Helmholz's tonsorial firing for effect is the result of complaints from customers whose fine, flyaway hair made them look more like Ben-Gurion than Ben Gazzara. Helmholz first tried to solve the problem with an old barber's trick: burning the ends with flaming candles. The knobby, stunted ends weighed down the hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable...
...works. He liked Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...
Then investigators learned more about Irving Zilbert. He had died of a heart attack six months before his award check was cashed. Jerry's Home Improvement Co., Zilbert's purported employer, was nowhere to be found; its address turned out to be that of a vacant barber shop. In early August, with the discovery of other false claims, Zilbert's physician, his lawyer, three other doctors, another lawyer and 14 other people were indicted for defrauding the state of Ohio of a total of $65,000. It was only one of several cases to emerge...
...doubt, the fulfillment of many a barber's fantasy. Into the shop came Ringo Starr, covered, as always, with hair. First he wanted his beard taken off, then his mustache. Then Ringo said, "Might as well keep goin'." When the deed was done-in Monaco, where Ringo now lives-the 36-year-old ex-Beatle percussionist was as hairless as a drum. The star was nervous at first, but he quickly found his baldness an advantage. "It's cooler, like," he explained. "This Riviera sun was goin' to me brain...