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...Sellars' interpretation is Arkel (bass Kenneth Cox), who is prominent here as in few other stagings. Arkel represents an ancien ragime that refuses to cede power, quashing the aspirations of the younger generation, represented by the angry, violent Golaud (bass-baritone Willard White), his younger half brother Pelleas (baritone Francois Le Roux) and Melisande (mezzo Monica Groop), the mysterious girl Pelleas meets in the forest and brings home as his bride. The Simpson connection was coincidental, but the color-blind casting of White, who is black, creates an unintentional, tabloidy frisson...
Dinner was a five-course affair--salad, soup, fillet of sea bass, lamb, and ice cream for dessert. Castro, who spoke in Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...
...ability to rank on popular culture from all perspectives. They successfully fulfill their attempt at vicious comedy with songs such as "I Left my Gun in San Francisco," which is about killing hippies, sung from the point of view of the killer. Thom Bone, one of several loud bass players, warns all Birkenstock-wearers, "I'm an easy going guy/but I'm even more mellow when hippies...
When asked what they planned to do when their fame or enthusiasm runs its course, Kamal first makes a half-hearted allusion to his bass guitar playing. But he finally responds, "I'll probably go back to shucking clams...
What he's doing now:I'm just trying to do a little bit of everything, to take some African and Flamenco dance lessons and some upright bass lessons...