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...Feathers seem to have replaced fur on most couture runways here this week. At a press conference this morning, Giorgio Armani explained that although he has used fur in his collections in the past, the Prive show he will present tonight at the Theatre de Chaillot will not have any fur. "I spoke with the people from PETA," he explained, "and they showed me some materials that convinced me not to use fur." So instead he has whipped up some pretty jazzy feathered boleros that are inspired by the rock music of David Bowie...
...Friday night as part of the Theatricals’ initiative to improve arts education in local schools. The five-minute event, which took place at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preceded the high school’s 7:30 p.m. production of “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” Started three years ago, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment has subsidized tickets for over 3,400 Cambridge Public School students spanning grades K-12 to attend theatrical performances, cultural events and museum exhibitions. “Every year I’ve been...
...feature films, 1956-81, including Four Girls in Town, 1957; A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1958; Imitation of Life, 1959; Psycho, Spartacus, Midnight Lace, A Breath of Scandal, 1960; Romanoff and Juliet, Tammy Tell Me True, 1961; Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967; The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1969; Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, 1970; History of the World, Part I, 1981; special adviser to secretary-general...
...polemical style comes naturally. A lawyer by training, Lang founded the experimental World Festival of Theater in the northeastern city of Nancy when he was only 22. In 1972 he was called to Paris to revitalize the musty Chaillot theater. In the process of gutting he building's ornate interior during renovations, Lang created huge cost overruns and caused a scandal. Recalls a colleague Utterly: "He turned a great theater into a garage." Then Minister of Culture Michel Guy fired Lang, who capitalized on the insult by joining the Socialist Party. In 1978, Mitterrand, who was still leader...
Madwoman of Chaillot--Winthrop...