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FAHRENHEIT 451. In adapting Fantasticist Ray Bradbury's tale of a society where reading is against the law, French Director Francois Truffaut has created a weirdly gay film that makes up in entertainment what it lacks in relevance. Truffaut's hero is a book-burning fireman (Oskar Werner) whose job is to start fires rather than put them out. Julie Christie plays a dual role as his TV-addicted mate and the book-loving girl who changes his life...
...Sake. Opera lore is rife with stories about sopranos whose contracts provide for dressing-room lovers -a stagehand, perhaps, or a house fireman who donates his services for art's sake. Soprano Gemma Bellincioni made no secret of the fact that she made love in her dressing room right before a performance. If she ran overtime-and she often did-her understanding Italian audiences waited patiently. One shapely U.S. lyric soprano was notorious in the 1940s for sabotaging her leading man by seducing him shortly before going onstage; audiences loved her, hated...
...that "Marcos failed in becoming the only Filipino to win America's highest military award." Actually, three Filipinos have been awarded the Medal of Honor: Sergeant José Calugas, Battery B, 88th Field Artillery, Philippine Scouts, at Culis, Bataan, 1942; Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad, U.S.N. on board U.S.S. San Diego, 1915; Private José B. Nisperos, 34th Company, Philippine Scouts, Lapurap, Basilan...
...smouldering wet mattress poked out the window and then dropped to the steps below. A fireman stuck out his head, yelled, "Hey, did I hit anybody?" and then tossed out a chair cushion...
...entry alarm had been turned off. Mazer ran downstairs and out into the House courtyard. "Where is a fireman?" he asked a student in the yard who had stopped to look at the smoke drifting from the window...