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Scarry's eclectic interests have sometimes led her in unexpected directions. In 1998, Scarry published an article in the New York Review of Books proposing that electromagnetic interference (EMI) could have caused the TWA 800 crash...
...note from the paper itself that Elaine Scarry is professor of 'Aesthetics and General Theory of Value,'" wrote one critic. " I don't know whether her noted authorship includes any titles of relevance to air investigation or EMI...
...until I'm dead?" Barenboim opposed the making of the movie version of the book. The BBC initially agreed to co-produce the film, but when Barenboim balked, it dropped out, citing internal rules that forbade it from making dramatic films about living people unless all those involved approved. EMI, which owns most of Du Pre's recordings, also refused to participate in the project. "We felt that the film focused on the wrong aspect of the Jackie legacy," says Richard Lyttelton, president of EMI Classics. "They were looking for sensationalism and ignoring the fact that she was the greatest...
Several young singers have been touted as possible successors to the first two tenors, but so far they have had about as much luck as Joan Rivers had in giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into...
...Stereo System 1931, by Alan Blumlein, working for Britain's EMI...