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Once I had to make my entrance onto the stage with a graceful turn, and a group of dancers were supposed to follow me in a perfect “battle-like” formation. But somehow my foot got caught in the curtain and the first thing the audience saw was me collapsing painfully on stage! No one laughed, but I did I hear a few compassionate “oh” from the back rows. I quickly got back to my place—it wasn’t until the end of the show that...
...Cape Town, try the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za). This includes stops in District Six, a once mixed-race suburb near the city center where residents forcibly removed in the 1960s are only now finally returning. There's also Langa, the city's oldest black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident...
Little wonder, then, that proctors feel they have to do things like, from time to time, raid harmless room parties, pull back the shower curtain and rip off the futon cushion in search of passed-out “dumb” kids. An attitude as paternalistic as that seems to efface the idea that we are actually the “best and brightest...
...curtain calls that tenor Charles Anthony has taken in his long career, one that he is taking this month has to be the most gratifying. In his role in Tosca at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Anthony, 74, is being celebrated for having sung for 50 consecutive seasons with the Met, a company record. In Tosca he is reaching his 2,882nd performance with the Met, also a record. "Charlie exemplifies what a Met singer is," says the opera's general manager, Joseph Volpe. "You almost can't believe he's been doing it so long. But you always know...
...Tyco Chief Executive L. Dennis Kozlowski allegedly threw his wife a $2-million, Roman-themed birthday party on the island of Sardinia, charging half the cost to the company. He is also charged with billing a variety of personal items ranging from expensive homes to a $6,000 shower curtain to Tyco. Yet the public has not put forth a critical assessment of his arrogance...