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When America last left Dirk Been the youth pastor and small-time actor was thanking God for giving him the chance to appear on Survivor. More than a year later Been is still confined to the purgatory of regional theater, but now he's found a new outlet for his survival skills: advising teens how to endure the often solitary desert isle that is virginity and keep their eye on the ultimate prize of sex during marriage. The celebrity face for the burgeoning virginity movement, Been was also the main attraction at the three-day "Abstinence: Taking the World...
...people could show the South African Parliament what not to do with a banana and a condom - and get a standing ovation. But political satirist and provocateur Pieter-Dirk Uys did just that with a special parliamentary performance of his one-man show Foreign Aids earlier this year. And at London's Tricycle Theatre this week, audiences are responding as enthusiastically to the play, in which Uys transforms himself into a handful of characters - or caricatures - to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance surrounding Africa's AIDS crisis. His onstage incarnations include Dr. Thaboo MacBeki - any resemblance to South African President...
...complexity which has prevented Pinter from having the commercial big-screen hits enjoyed by other playwrights, such as David Mamet (The Untouchables) and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Pinter's 22-strong movie output, however, is critically distinguished - particularly a three-film collaboration with director Joseph Losey (including the creepy Dirk Bogarde-James Fox classic The Servant), and his John Fowles adaptation, The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...Paris or Milan, but in Antwerp. Of the original Antwerp Six, the avant-garde talents who first put the school and this city of 452,000 people on the fashion map in the early 1980s, four of them - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter van Beirendonck and Dirk van Saene - remain based in Antwerp. A fifth, Dirk Bikkembergs, left just last year. The sixth switched to theater design...
After seven years as the senior tutor of Pforzheimer House, Dirk M. Killen `82 will leave Harvard next year to accept a position as an assistant dean at Washington University's school of arts and sciences...