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...national artist of music and literature; in Quezon City. DIED. TONINO CERVI, 72, Italian film producer, screenwriter and director who aided the careers of Federico Fellini and Bernardo Bertolucci and won top honors in 1964 at the Venice Film Festival for Michelangelo Antonioni's first color production, Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert); in Rome. BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and cleavage-proud model, a son, Damian Charles; in London. Hurley claims the father is former boyfriend and multimillionaire producer Stephen Bing. EXTRADITION SOUGHT. Of CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, former President of Venezuela, and his wife Cecilia Matos after the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem Sun Treader glinted with an ice-age grandeur, evoking craggy ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Old Salt | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...famous balcony scene was shot in a dreamlike little garden of the sumptuous Ca' d'Oro in Venice; the ballroom scene, all cressets gleaming on dark wood and in bright eyes, was done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: IN FAIR VERONA | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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