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...ship," Zambello explains gleefully, "is a huge ocean liner that has Isolde in the middle--as if she's in a womb or a prison--and the lower deck is an engine room with sweaty bodies. When I saw the set, I thought, 'People are just going to freak...
Born in New York City, Zambello, 41, majored in philosophy at Colgate University, although she already knew she wanted to become a director. Dark-eyed, strong-featured and forceful to a fault, she confesses to being "a born control freak." An apprenticeship with the innovative opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle led to her 1986 European debut at Venice's Teatro la Fenice, and her work is now seen regularly at London's Covent Garden and Paris' Bastille Opera, as well as in such American cities as Houston, where her joltingly fresh takes on Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Britten...
...unnamed magazine and she responds, "It's going to be topical, contemporary, high-quality, provocative." How that will be different from the New Yorker or Vanity Fair (or any number of other magazines) remains unclear. For his part, Weinstein says that despite his reputation as a control freak (filmmakers have nicknamed him Harvey Scissorhands), the new magazine won't have any more trouble from him than TIME and (Time Inc.-owned) ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY get from their corporate cousin, Warner Bros. co-chairman Terry Semel. When a reporter notes that those magazines don't report to Semel--and weren't expressly...
...fast, they say. What about television, the movies, the nightly news? A kid who can't tell the difference between blowing up a computerized freak and taking Dad's high-powered rifle out to the schoolyard, says marketing director Mike Breslin, 25, might not have got the best parenting...
...your heirs become limited partners. Each year you can give limited partners family-partnership stock valued at a maximum of $10,000. But remember, the partnership stock represents assets worth more than $10,000. Thus you shield a larger part of your estate. And if you're a control freak, the best part is that only you, the general partner, can liquidate assets. Hint: investment gains are taxable, so let the heirs cash out enough to pay the tax bite...