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HAMLET. Turns out that Mel Gibson, with his brooding presence and urgent baritone, is on speaking terms with Shakespeare. And Franco Zeffirelli's film is plenty pretty. It almost works as a cloak-and-bodkin adventure, but with one problem for the kids: all that talk...
King Charles I of England had several court painters, not all equally lucky. Anthony van Dyck was the luckiest of all. But how could one envy, say, Richard Gibson? He was not only a miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different...
...sensitive male is a wimp and an object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher. Pucci Manikins is producing a more muscular model for the new decade that stands...
...with the golden touch has struck it rich again -- or has he? Former Treasury Secretary William Simon reaped a $66 million profit when he and fellow investors acquired Gibson Greetings in 1982 and sold the card company back to public stockholders 16 months later. That windfall helped create the 1980s boom in leveraged buyouts and established Simon's reputation as a master of mouth-watering financial deals...
Skardon Baker paced the Crimson early, holding the lead after the first mile. However, Baker soon faded. The bulk of the race was paced by the Yale tandem of Jim Gibson and Jake Michel and Princeton's Bill Burke. Gibson and Burke dueled to the finish, with Burke coming out on top, covering the five-mile course in 25:58. Gibson finished second, a mere three seconds back...