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...page, metaphysical labyrinth of The Magus-experiments in fiction that endure despite being made into forgettable films. His surprise best seller of 1969, The French Lieutenant's Woman, may be best remembered for the windswept pairing of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in the 1981 screen adaptation by Harold Pinter...
DIED. SHEREE NORTH, 72, blond bombshell of 1950s Hollywood; of complications from surgery; in Los Angeles. Groomed to replace the flighty Marilyn Monroe, North did just that in 1955's How to Be Very, Very Popular, and later danced with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman. Better than the movie, bolder than the book, this brassy musical centers on a homosexual flirtation in an Argentine prison. Scenes of torture crosscut to film fantasies with hunks and feathers. Comebacks for star Chita Rivera, director Harold Prince, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, plus a stellar debut for Brent Carver in a show asserting there can be no freedom without sexual freedom...
Ickes Joins White House Team Clinton named Harold Ickes, a New York labor lawyer and son of F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior, as his deputy chief of staff. Ickes will use his expertise as a tough political dealmaker to coordinate efforts to pass the President's health-care reform plan...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...