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...with secrecy, Castano has given only a handful of press interviews and refused until recently to have his face photographed. Catching up to him involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...
...nonexistent inflation-this despite a fundamentally healthy economy. Clearly Greenspan's Fed is suffering from its own brand of irrational exuberance. The rate increases and threats of what might happen punish traditional investors, while the wild speculation Greenspan seems preoccupied with taming laughs in his face. PETER L. ROGERS Darien, Conn...
...means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them." We must protect our differences, not just our sameness. BOB ORABONA, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Friends of Animals Darien, Conn...
...Festival, where he hoped to put on a musical she had co-written. That didn't work out, but a decade later--after Taymor had won acclaim for her presentations of opera (Oedipus Rex), children's works (The Green Bird) and, last season, a Tony-nominated musical fable, Juan Darien--Schumacher approached her again. This time he asked whether she wanted to direct The Lion King. Taymor hadn't even seen the film, but after Schumacher sent her a videocassette and the sound track, she agreed to give...
These are just a few of the images that greet visitors to Juan Darien, a self-described "carnival Mass" being staged at New York City's Lincoln Center. Adapted from an Uruguayan story by innovative stage director and designer Julie Taymor, it is a visually dazzling and utterly original piece of stagecraft. But perhaps more startling is what its creator is doing next. Taymor, a leading light of New York's experimental theater scene, has been picked by Disney to turn its all-time biggest movie hit, The Lion King, into a Broadway show...