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Monday morning, the congratulations started pouring in as the news of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05’s signing hit the internet. The former Harvard quarterback and seventh-round draft pick was peppered with phone calls and emails from friends who had seen reports that he had inked a three-year contract with the St. Louis Rams...
...Fitzpatrick was appreciative, but bewildered—though his agent had “pretty much agreed” upon a deal with the Rams, he hadn’t actually signed anything yet. His first inkling of his supposed “signing” was when a former Harvard teammate called him Monday morning...
Within hours after the agreement was signed Nov. 21, American impresarios and museum directors were lining up for their share of cultural caviar. Robert Fitzpatrick, who is arranging Los Angeles' 1987 Arts Festival--which will be much like the one he set up for the 1984 Olympics--was already in Moscow. "I wanted to be the first in the door," he says. Fitzpatrick, whose taste runs to artistic frontiers, immediately placed a bid for the innovative Rustaveli Theater from the Georgian city of Tbilisi. "It's been a generation or two since we've seen any Soviet theater in this...
...Fitzpatrick may have wanted to be first in the door, but Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a promoter of Soviet-American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned...
...behind Hammer and Fitzpatrick came a parade of other Americans, hoping to sign up everything from the Bolshoi Ballet to dancing bears--so long as they growled in Russian. "Neither the American nor the Soviet government was prepared for the onslaught of interest," says Hermann. "Everyone with two nickels to rub together wants to be the next Sol Hurok." Many of those would-be impresarios may be disappointed, however, and it is harder to make a profit from touring companies today. Says Lee Lament, president of ICM Artists, which once presented many of the Soviet troupes: "With the rising cost...