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...Cheryl Crawford, 84, innovative Broadway producer and co-founder of the influential Group Theatre and Actors Studio; of complications from a fall; in New York City. A tight-lipped woman in a man's world, Crawford staged more than 100 plays--among them Waiting for Lefty (1935), Porgy and Bess (1942) and Mother Courage (1963)--that helped charge American theater with a social conscience as well as the intensely psychological style of Method acting...
...soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby during a storm that will claim the child's father in a boat accident. Barrino says she never heard the famous lullaby before singing it on Idol. But as a young single mother, in a way she knew the song without knowing...
Looking for a way to avoid the dreaded plane drain of business trips? Airplane Yoga, by journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt and yoga instructor Bess Abrahams, presents Hatha yoga--inspired exercises designed to fight flight fatigue. The guide gives flyers ways to stretch and relax at each leg of the journey, from security to baggage claim. Exercises include Heavy-Luggage Hand Stretches, Red-Eye Foot Flexes and Deplaning Pep Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension...
Slow but steady is the best approach for exercise neophytes, says Bess H. Marcus, director of physical-activity research at Brown University's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. "You don't take a sedentary person and say, 'O.K., go to the gym every day, or go run five miles.' You help them set realistic short-term goals so they are successful." A user-friendly class at a Y, community center or health club can ease a first-timer into a routine, she says...
...written in Al Hirschfeld's case that this is the death of two or three Broadway eras. He came to his calling - caricaturist to the stars - in the 20s, when Broadway was the face of American sophistication and sizzle. He was there when Gershwin presented "Porgy and Bess," when Tennessee Williams drove his "Streetcar," when "Guys and Dolls" and "Hair" and "Phantom" opened. And he was there as Broadway launched yet another season inattentive to the young generation, inadequate for the old. Hirschfeld outlived not only most of the people he drew but, really, the medium itself...