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...Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center's Juilliard School. Most of the time he is working by the light of at least one moon...
...delude their constituencies into believing that the greatest bulwark against tyranny is an arsenal of nuclear warheads. John Paul has no armies at his command. His strength is truth. John Paul has not a single armament at his disposal. Courage is his only defense. The military power of a Caesar, a Hitler or a Stalin is short-lived compared with the moral power of leaders like Jesus, Gandhi and John Paul...
...Chase's overage preppie. Bill Murray's blitzed-out party guy. The other group-the inspired mimics who hid themselves behind the galaxy of comic characters they portrayed-looked both stretched and cramped when, in a movie, they were required to inhabit only one personality. From Sid Caesar and Carol Burnett to Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner and Aykroyd, these performers had enough energy and scarifying talent to burst out of the small screen, but lacked the strong, smooth identities that Hollywood could package as star quality...
...voice from Williamsburg's past shouts louder than that of Patrick Henry, who in 1765 protested the British Stamp Act ("Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful...
...tenth muse," Critic Andrew Lang called the spirit of forgery. She may be busier and more inventive than any of her nine sisters. Under her sway, the 19th century Frenchman Denis Vrain-Lucas fabricated more than 27,000 documents purportedly from the hands of Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron...