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...plot, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, revolves around a double courtship. The two daughters of the rich Baptista, Katherina and Bianca, are up for grabs; but the beautiful Bianca cannot marry until her sharp-tongued older sister is suitably bethrothed. The three suitors for Bianca's hand, Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio, stake the gold-digging fool Petruchio into marrying Katherina and clearing the path to wed Bianca. While Petruchio engages in verbal duels with Kate, Lucentio and Hortensio disguise themselves and woo Bianca in secret...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Taming of the Soft Shoe? | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...becomes the baggy pants petty bourgeois proprietor of the theatre. Played by Jim Kaufman, he is the very model of an alcoholic crud. Hortensio as done by director McDonough becomes a pseudo Mafioso a proto-Don Corleone complete with big blue suit and loud tie, Lucentio (Kevin Fennessy) and Bianca (Marianne Adams) are the very models of squeaky clean 30s youth...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Taming of the Soft Shoe? | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...Though the parents have not married, they did not want to shuck all tradition, and gathered grandparents for a christening two weeks ago in London. "I'm loving every minute of being Dad again," says Jagger, 40, who has two other daughters: Jade, 13 (by ex-wife Bianca), and Karis, 13 (by American Singer Marsha Hunt). The baby, he adds, has "Jerry's sweet disposition and my extravagant good looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

BORN. To Jerry Hall, 27, top Texan model, and Mick Jagger, 40, untrammeled, untamed lead singer of the Rolling Stones: their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Jagger, who has two other daughters, Karis, 13, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 12, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, was present in the delivery room but thus far does not intend to marry Hall, apparently fearing that a divorce would cost him millions. Prenuptial agreements, Jagger recently said, "don't stand up in court hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...supermodel, and Mick Jagger, 40, strutting, mugging lead singer of the world's most enduring rock-'n'-roll band, the Rolling Stones; their first child; in February. Jagger, who has two daughters, Karis, 12, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 11, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, does not intend to marry Hall. Said the legendary "street-fightin' man" last week: "I think stability, comfort and marriage are very well for other people. But in this business I don't think you can have that and still be creative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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