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Right now there is precisely one first-rank woman architect--the estimable Zaha Hadid--who works on her own, not teamed with her husband or some other guy. But hold on, Zaha--reinforcements are coming. Lindy Roy, 40, is already the most famous woman architect who has just one completed project to her name: the new Manhattan showroom of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, which has become a showcase for Roy too. It's a suavely configured space where display platforms ribbon around corners or morph into mahogany staircases that have embedded steel treads...
...leggy movie star who tapped up a storm in such MGM musicals as Easter Parade, On the Town and Kiss Me Kate; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. As a girl in Houston, Miller danced to support her mother. In Hollywood she was a highenergy, if less than first-rank, musical star. On Broadway she got a chance to take center stage in her 50s, co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the 1979 musical Sugar Babies, which ran for nearly three years...
...MILLER, 81, leggy Hollywood star who tapped up a storm in such MGM musicals as Easter Parade, On the Town and Kiss Me Kate; in Los Angeles. As a girl, Miller danced to support herself and her mother. In Hollywood she was a high-energy, if less than first-rank, musical star. On Broadway, she got a chance to take center stage in her 60s, co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the 1979 musical Sugar Babies, which ran for nearly three years...
...movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled at her categorization as a female violinist. "A violinist is a violinist, and I am to be judged as one--not a female musician," she said...
...BOTTOM LINE: An unsung but first-rank regional stage scores with vibrant absurdism about a bonkers family...