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...creator of the book, which Cammell guessed Brando never completely read. That was typical of their relationship, with Cammell remaining, in Thomson's word, Brando's supplicant, alternately embraced and dismissed by the star as Brando's career faded into lazy inconsequence in the early '80s. In his private domain, however, the actor was an absolute monarch: "a small mind in hideous contrast with the overlarge body," as Thomson characterizes him in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film. The pair accepted an advance for the novel from a British publisher in 1982, but Brando eventually repaid the money. Thereafter...
...orchestras to hire female instrumentalists, let alone female conductors. The Vienna Philharmonic was all male until 1997, when under the pressure of popular opinion it finally hired a female harpist. Among the top 75 symphony orchestras in the U.S., there are still only three female conductors. "The last domain of gender within the music business is the position of conductor," says Deborah Borda, president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. "Somebody like Marin is a real pioneer." Alsop is philosophical about the problem. "I think it's purely the fact that people are not used to it," she says...
...grand jury asked about one of the more interesting lines in that e-mail, in which I refer to my conversation with Rove as being on "double super secret background," a line that's raised a few eyebrows ever since it leaked into the public domain. I told the grand jury that the phrase is not a journalistic term of art but a reference to the film Animal House, in which John Belushi's wild Delta House fraternity is placed on "double secret probation." ("Super" was my own addition.) In fact, I told the grand jury, Rove told...
...name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words, luckily for the comics, are still public domain...
Cambridge Fire Department (CFD), once the domain of men who passed the job on to their sons, has turned into one of the most selective fire departments as it has added more and more tests to the application process...