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...monologues of the unemployed tiresalesman Sam Byck, his tape-recorded messages to Leonard ("Lenny") Bernstein and Richard ("Dick") Nixon, are marvelously witty and display a perfect understanding of the mind of the paranoiac...
Since its opening, The Crimson Shop, located at12-18 Dunster Street, has served celebrities suchas Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. aswell as countless Harvard students and alumni,according to Hasekian...
...story can't be told that quickly. She looks on her childhood as privileged. Her mother, a nurse and a Head Start teacher, was a strong woman ("Still is. She's got her foibles, but she's amazing") who would say, "Get on the bus, go hear the Leonard Bernstein concert, go see the children's ballet, go to the museum . . ." And there were old movies on TV, "though I didn't know they were old; I liked the idea of seeing Clark Gable in the war on one channel, and then switching, and he'd be riding a horse...
...Giant Tribute, Bernstein...
Conductor, composer, TV stalwart, Leonard Bernstein was a prodigy whose musical accomplishments were blurred by his seismic personality. He died in 1990 at 72, but his reputation, instead of receding as the fame of so many artists does after death, is going strong. The latest tribute is Sony's massive LEONARD BERNSTEIN ROYAL EDITION, a repackaging of his Columbia recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. It consists of some 119 CDs, to be released over the next 2 1/2 years. The first 10 concentrate on Beethoven and Bartok, and the remastered sound is excellent. But that...