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...Fall River Legend," the opening piece, is an adaptation of Morton Gould's full score for the Agnes DeMille ballet about Lizzie Borden, the same one who "took an ax" and "gave her parents forty whacks." Thought it calls for fewer than 20 performers, it requires them to sound like many more. This illusion succeeded best in the fanciful second movement, "Waltzes" and the "Elegy" that follows, a piece that itself could secure for its creator a reputation as one of America's greatest tonal composers. Previn and his temporarily reduced company made it not only a focused meditation...
...with Jewish producer Barry Rosenbush, who sensed the movie potential in a television-news story about the bonding that occurred among a group of black men from Los Angeles who met on a bus trip to the march. But, as Lee puts it, Rosenbush and his partner, Bill Borden, quickly realized that "being Jewish, it would have been very hard for them to pull it off without some brothers up in there." Rosenbush and Borden recruited Reuben Cannon, an African American and one of Hollywood's top casting directors, as a co-producer. He in turn brought Lee aboard...
...gymnastics team, overshadowed by media darlings like five-time Olympic medal winner Shannon Miller and 14-year-old phenom Dominique Moceanu. Strug, 18, is the sensitive one, the worrier, the one most attuned to the feelings of her teammates. She remembers birthdays and sends notes. When Amanda Borden was going through physical problems, it was Strug who perked her up by sending cards. She's a team player...
...dream about from when you're 5 years old." Her coach Bela Karolyi carried her back to the arena for the medal ceremony, cradling her in his arms as the crowd gave her a standing ovation. "We didn't want to march out without Kerri," said her teammate Amanda Borden. "We kept telling her, we couldn't have done it without her." Strug's gutsy performance should not overshadow the brilliant display by Moceanu and Dominique Dawes, who posted strong score across the board. Or Shannon Miller, who added her first gold to her five medals won in Barcelona...
Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...