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DIED. LARRY ADLER, 87, blacklisted musician who elevated the harmonica to concert-hall status; in London. When a local store owner gave the young Adler a harmonica, he taught himself to play by ear, won a harmonica-playing contest and left his home in Baltimore for New York City at 14. By the late 1930s he was performing in Carnegie Hall, still playing by ear; Ingrid Bergman, with whom he had an affair, was said to have persuaded him to pursue formal music training. In 1947, his liberal politics led to printed charges of communist sympathies; after suing unsuccessfully...
...Patrick redoubled his fund-raising efforts to meet a possible 2002 challenge from term-limited G.O.P. Governor Lincoln Almond, the family pitched in. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were hosts for a concert at Manhattan's Russian Tea Room that hauled in $100,000. A clambake at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port cleared $75,000. In March, Patrick made a surprise appearance onstage at the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies. Dressed in a sailor suit, he sang a rewrite of the Gilligan's Island theme. ("I'd asked a gal whom I had met/To take an evening...
Hard to feel sympathy for MADONNA--not that she'd want you to. Last week she was hit by concert-canceling laryngitis, reviews of her Drowned World tour haven't been great, and some fans are complaining that she's been too heavily influenced by British director-husband GUY RITCHIE. Now comes word that Ritchie is remaking Swept Away, the 1974 Lina Wertmuller film, in which Mrs. Ritchie will play the rich, spoiled woman marooned on an island with her grunt-for-hire, who turns the tables by deeply humiliating her. In one scene, he forces her to wash...
Farrell's latest obsession is Hebrew mysticism. The opening and closing tracks on his new album celebrate Jubilee, the Old Testament edict of forgiving debts and abolishing slavery. He dreams of mounting a Jubilee mega-concert event in Israel this year featuring Bob Dylan, Snoop Doggy Dogg and U2. Farrell's hazy and grandiose plans were mentioned as the possible reason that a Jane's Addiction reunion suddenly derailed this summer; despite some well-received appearances at concert events, the group recently pushed a full-scale tour back from August to late fall--if it ever happens...
...national testing standards, appear to have no problem whatsoever with scripting a national no-sex ed curriculum. This flip-flop would be slightly easier to swallow if a) there was a groundswell of support for the approach (parents, on the contrary, in survey after survey support teaching abstinence in concert with birth control) or b) there was convincing evidence that this program works...