Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder. The rest of the film runs to self-parody, augmented by boyish enthusiasm for booze, broads, violence and bad grammar. Though...
...fingernails into her adversary's Balenciaga décolleté. Dress Designer Yves Saint Laurent dealt his neighbor a smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed on to applaud. The tumult raged for a full 30 minutes. Then at 2 a.m., the object of it all, Maria Callas, slipped out the stage door of the Paris Opera, ducked into her flower-strewn limousine, and purred off into the balmy Paris night...
...still drawing stares and applause as she returned to her box for the third act. As she smiled and acknowledged the attention, she started to sit down, then-ploop-she disappeared. The audience gasped, but quickly relaxed as she bobbed up unhurt and laughing. Met General Manager Rudolf Bing had been holding her chair, and he pulled it away to exchange it for one more comfortable. That's the story, anyway...
Segregation remains the general rule for concert audiences in Mississippi and Alabama; elsewhere it is accomplished more discreetly. And much of the South is effectively ear-muffed; Rudolf Bing two years ago refused to allow the touring Met to appear before segregated audiences, and Sol Hurok, with his huge stable of artists, has had a similar policy for a decade. At week's end the new musical boycott of the Deep South was endorsed by Vladimir Horowitz. Horowitz' stand was duly reported in the press, despite its purely theoretical value-he has not played in public anywhere...
...while the cast tore off their wigs and pointed mocking fingers at the audience. "This is a very disturbing opera, and you should be reminded at the end that it is disturbing," he argued. "Everything is a big joke! You've all been cheated!" But Met Manager Rudolf Bing didn't get it-he figured it would look like a grotesque error by the boys backstage. So he spared his audience what might have been a stunning experience...