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...Stupenda really got on with it a few nights later as the star of opening night's new production of Bellini's bel canto classic Norma. Though Sutherland did not warm up until after her cruel Act I setpiece Casta Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately or been so actively involved in the dramatic proceedings. Under Tito Capobianco's ingenious direction, Sutherland clearly dramatized the two sides of Norma's often enigmatic personality-severe and stately as the imperious high priestess of the Druids, yielding, even frantic as a woman in love with, and ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Onward with Adler | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...Reynolds spends much of his spare time in Florida on the 160-acre ranch that his father, newly reconciled, runs for him. "I feel like the Marlboro man there," he says. But increasingly the Marlboro man is being lured back to Hollywood to woo the Perle Mesta of the Bel Air set, Dinah Shore. It all began when Dinah, 19 years his senior, had Burt on her show last summer. Oscar Levant once said he couldn't watch Dinah because he had diabetes. But, as Dinah tells it, the show she did with Burt would have been X-rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Frog Prince | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...life, style is everything, and not the smallest detail escapes his eye. His dress is impeccable if funereal, and his life, so serene as to seem unHitchcockian, is as well planned as his movies. He and his wife of 46 years, Alma, live in a two-bedroom house in Bel Air, Calif.; the only thing unusual about it is the large kitchen, with walk-in refrigerator and a wine cellar, which has a vast if diminishing collection. The prices of French wines today are too much even for a director who makes on the order of $500,000 a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still the Master | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...After dawn-to-dusk days in search of real estate, Wilson spent evenings in search of lighted tennis courts so he and his aides could squeeze in a set or two before bedtime. One 18-hour stretch of land hunting ended at the Tenis Clube Do Para in Belém, Brazil, where Anderson found himself whacking back Wilson's forehand drives at 10 o'clock at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 12, 1972 | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Named the most valuable player in the series by Sport magazine, Chamberlain received as his reward a Dodge station wagon. He needed it about as much as he needs another basketball. Wilt has just enough space at his new $ 1,500,000 home in Bel Air to garage the Dodge next to his Bentley, his Maserati and his Cadillac. When he will get a chance to drive the new car is another question. As usual, Bachelor Chamberlain plans to spend much of the off season traveling, adding the names of new countries to the list of 68 he has already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One for the Dipper | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

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