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...middle of the night, he went walking in his sleep from the mountains of fame, through the valley of fear, the jungle of doubt and the desert of truth . . . to the river of dreams...
Consummate spy that he was, Fred Woodruff would be surprised by his fame in death. On Monday, the day of his burial, flags at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world were ordered flown at half staff. That seems fitting for the first U.S. spy to die helping, not harming, a onetime Soviet republic...
Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chose as its new director a man unassociated with rock but familiar with the public spotlight: Dennis Barrie. His previous job was director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and while there he was charged with obscenity for a controversial show of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs (Barrie was cleared). "I have a high-culture background," said Barrie, but pop culture "is one of the most potent forces in the world...
What a difference a year makes: Gardini reached the peak of his fame only last spring, when his racing yacht, Il Moro di Venezia, defied sailing experts and reached the finals in the America's Cup. Il Moro's success cast Gardini as the personification of Italian style, an image especially sweet for a man whose childhood on a farm in Ravenna earned him the lifelong nickname "il contadino," the peasant...
...BOTTOM LINE: Billy Wilder's satire of Hollywood still evokes the pain of losing fame, but musicalizing it has added little...