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DIED. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime...
While many of her players took summer internships or joined summer basketball leagues, Delaney-Smith was coaching the likes of 2005 Naismith Player of the Year Seimone Augustus of LSU and preseason All-American Monique Currie from Duke. Players from perennial national powerhouses Texas Tech, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Ohio State were on the squad...
...choices that mark the craft of a master filmmaker, whether in changing the setting of the film to 1797—the year that Jane Austen wrote the novel’s first draft—because of his distaste for empire line dresses, or by intriguing Dame Judi Dench by sending a candid letter that read, “I love it when you’re a bitch, please come play a bitch for me.” The Harvard Crimson: How did you decide to make the film? Joe Wright: Working Title, who had done...
...harmonizing with the spa's Mediterranean architecture - and a new pavilion has been added. There are further expansion plans: a centuries-old chapel is being imported stone by stone from France, and an Orangerie (to be the venue for healthy cooking lessons) will be completed next spring. This grande dame of California spas is now as rejuvenated as its clientele. www.cal-a-vie.com
...harmonizing with the spa's Mediterranean architecture-and a new pavilion has been added. There are further expansion plans: a centuries-old chapel is being imported stone by stone from France, and an Orangerie (to be the venue for healthy cooking lessons) will be completed next spring. This grande dame of California spas is now as rejuvenated as its clientele...