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...DIVA WITH A POLAROID...
...MASTER CLASS The role is larger than life: the century's most famous diva, Maria Callas, captured at an age when her voice has left but her ego remains as outsized as ever. The performance is commensurately grand: Zoe Caldwell, by turns imperious and humbled, cruel and sympathetic. Terrence McNally's Broadway play may have its structural shortcomings, but it is cheering to watch so much talent hurled at so much ambition...
...doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might be thought triply vulnerable--high-pitched, solitary, female--emerges as an invincible spirit...
...press skepticism about her devotion to volunteer work, which waned after her husband's election campaigns. Now she is trying to start a new television show called Beat the Press, with pro-Clinton Camille Paglia as her co-host. Says Paglia: "I view her as a major contemporary diva. I knew I would help her when I heard she posed with a rubber chicken. This is what we need in this country." "There's really nothing like self-deprecating humor," Huffington says. "We need to have humor in politics." As the spectacle of Arianna Huffington unfolds, the Republicans...
...Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring live material from the band's early days. The primal sound of punk, moreover, can be heard in the music of a growing number of pop acts, including the neofeminist caterwauling of Canadian diva Alanis Morissette and the unapologetically sloppy guitar riffs of the teenage Australian rock band Silverchair...