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...plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...
...began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with the glance of the Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
...easy to imagine the shows as great emperor-without-clothes scenes--the critics and collectors, as Tom Wolfe writes, "now squinting, now popping the eye sockets open, now drawing back, now moving closer--waiting, waiting, forever waiting for...it...for it to come into focus, namely the visual reward (for so much effort) which must be there, which every (tout le monde) knew to be there--waiting for something to radiate directly from the paintings...
...overran six district capitals, three in the highland region, two in Military Region I and one in Military Region III, before zeroing in on their primary target: Ban Me Thuot, a sleepy Montagnard city of 80,000 and the capital of Darlac province, where in a quieter era the Emperor Bao Dai used to hunt for tiger...
...crystal Baccarat table was designed for a 19th century Indian maharajah; the gilded piano was once played by Chopin. But the bearskin rugs, emperor-size bed and rhinestone-studded recreation room could belong only to Liberace, 55. Now music's oldest glitter rocker has opened his rococo Hollywood Hills mansion, complete with toothy portraits of the maestro himself, to public tours at $5.90 a pop. His share of the profits, says Lee, will help support aspiring artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff...