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...sober moment, he decides that Willett is Falstaff and that he, Brodie, is Prince Hal, about to come of age. What better place to reach maturity than on a spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...
...about his colleagues' performances. He refuses to be pinned down about his favorite pieces of music. Says Levine: "There is a general tendency in the world to be preoccupied with evaluating things, and this is a trap. If you agree that Verdi's masterpieces are Otello and Falstaff, then what about Ernani and Macbeth? In finding a level on a kind of musical Richter scale, it implies that you should not be altogether involved with works that get only a 3 or a 5." Yet, with the fervor of the true specialist, he will happily expatiate on Beethoven...
Interviewer: Of course, you went on to write the masterpieces of Otello and Falstaff, so your Shakespearean credentials are well in order. And Sir Peter, director of Britain's National Theater, obviously knows the Bard. His staging is almost cinematic in spots, using dissolves from one scene to another and staging a climactic final battle in stop action. What advice did you give...
...beer companies will inevitably mean fewer and fewer choices for consumers. That is something that no beer lover can welcome. These days, when the bartender asks, "What'll you have?" the options seldom if ever seem to include such familiar names as Rheingold, Knickerbocker, Hamm's and Falstaff. Thus as the industry grows more and more concentrated, with fewer companies ruling more of the market, bits of Americana itself will continue to disappear. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Stephen Koepp/New York and Paul A. Witteman/Milwaukee
...courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide, insisting that he not be named: "Do I like Ted? Do you like a volcano?" Turner's wife Jane says she is sure he must have been...