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...Nine Symphonies (EMI, 8 LPs). The 1981 winner of the Beethoven sweepstakes, with London's Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling...
Gary U.S. Bonds: Dedication (EMI America). Reborn rhythm and blues by a soul-solid singer...
MICHAEL CIMINO GOT LUCKY. Back in 1978, Vietnam was just becoming hot movie material, Cimino, the spunky young director with one movie under his belt (the insipid Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), sold the British recording company EMI the idea for a terrific film--a gut-wrenching Vietnam drama. The Deer Hunter. A hot idea, Vietnam laced with contemporary American pop romanticism. The Vietnam War the way Bruce Springsteen would probably sing about it. Workin' class guys, they go and they fight for their country, 'cause their country ain't so great, you know--it's real bad sometimes--but they...
...maybe Maria was ready to quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...
...guru of the modern political campaign, the ex pert who pinpoints which voters a candidate has the best chance to woo and what image and issues might win them. Yet the art and emi nence of the candidate's pollster have flowered so recently that there are only four or five pros at the top of the trade...