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...role was as late as 1996, as the piano teacher in Shine, and he starred in a TV version of Beckett's Catastrophe the year he died. He knew so many historical figures - George Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler...
SWITZERLAND Hospice Du Grand Saint-Bernard This ancient Alpine monastery has offered refuge to travelers for more than 1,000 years. Today, $51 will get you a bed, views of three public squares and a vista that would make the Von Trapp family yodel in ecstasy. INDIA The Golden Temple Not for the high-maintenance tourist, this vast Sikh temple in Amritsar operates a hostel and a community kitchen. With about Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...DIED. MARGE SCHOTT, 75, philanthropist and controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati. Under Schott, a lumber magnate's daughter who gave her St. Bernard dogs the run of the ballpark, the Reds won the 1990 baseball World Series. But Schott was twice suspended from running the franchise after making insensitive remarks, including slurs against black players and praise for Adolf Hitler. ("Hitler was good in the beginning," she told a newspaper, "but he went...
...Hermes; Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto for Harpsichord; Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and tape; and Giancento Scelsi’s Anahit. Saturday’s program includes George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae; George Ligeti’s Cello Concerto; Bernard Rands’ Concertino for oboe; and Tristan Murail’s Ethers. A discussion with composers Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands to follow on both days. Admission free. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...Bernard reports that he has received more requests for combination surgeries since the premiere of Extreme Makeover, a phenomenally popular reality show on ABC in which subjects undergo as many as six surgeries at a time to remove any perceived flaws on their bodies. He says the show has generated good p.r. for the field, but he is worried that it raises unrealistic expectations. "People don't realize that subjects on the show are preselected," he says. "They're in excellent health, screened by psychologists and analyzed by the best plastic surgeons in the country to ensure that their transformation...