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...tone for what follows. Both the Naipaul fan and the general reader will turn the pages of A Writer's People with mounting dismay, not simply because it compares poorly with his previous work - the slow waning of which has been well documented - but because it indulges Naipaul's famous petulance to such an extent that the man himself fails at looking and feeling, whatever his book's subtitle might be. In place of truth-telling, he has substituted superciliousness and spite...
...fans. But by the 1940s there were virtually no dedicated Kunqu theaters left. With its archaic lyrics, sluggish melodies and tedious narratives, the 600-year-old genre - a precursor to the better known Peking opera - was all but dead and understandably so. The Peony Pavilion, one of the most famous Kunqu works, consists of 55 scenes, and a performance can last more than 20 hours. Witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry less about falling asleep and more about slipping into a coma. When, in 2001, UNESCO declared Kunqu a "masterpiece" of the world's "intangible heritage" it seemed...
...FAMOUS HAWAIIAN-beach kiss with co-star Burt Lancaster in the wartime drama From Here to Eternity introduced sex appeal, however tame it may seem by contemporary standards, to 1950s moviegoers. Previously cast for roles that accentuated her genteel English demeanor, Deborah Kerr gave a sultry performance that earned her a spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated...
LEAVE IT TO THE COMEDIAN to have the last laugh. Joey Bishop outlived all the more famous--and more raucous--Rat Packers. By the 1960s he had earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about...
...brainchildren of two of Harvard’s most famous dropouts—one conceived more than three decades ago, the other three years ago—united yesterday in a deal that places a $15 billion value on an online experiment launched from a Kirkland dorm room. Microsoft announced yesterday it would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, putting an end to a bidding war over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money...