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...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy 's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that...
...conducting what Royce, writing in the tabloid Daily Mail, called "rumpy-pumpy at the Sextator" with his "Singular Life" columnist Petronella Wyatt. Johnson's private life is his own business, but Tory leader Michael Howard fired him as shadow arts minister on the deliciously Clintonian grounds that he hadn't told the whole truth about it when asked (which Johnson denies). One executive at the Spectator's parent company jokes, without much mirth, that "it looks like they don't have enough work to do there...
...glad the Red Sox won the World Series, if for no other reason than that we no longer have to hear about the Curse of the Bambino. The reason the Red Sox hadn't won a World Series since 1918 was simple: the team was never good enough to win. Now that the Red Sox have won, they can go back to playing their usual role as second best to the Yankees. But now it's without any excuses. Roy Weston Victoria, Canada...
...glad the Red Sox won the World Series, if for no other reason than we no longer have to hear about the Curse of the Bambino. The reason the Red Sox hadn't won a World Series since 1918 was simple: the team was never good enough to win. Now that the Red Sox have won, they can go back to playing their usual role as second best to the Yankees. But it will be without any excuses...
...told me of a time he was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...