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...Italian government got a truckload of evidence when its national police force raided the warehouse of Giacomo Medici, finding records of the pieces he had acquired from looters. The government sued Medici and fellow art dealer Robert Hecht for trafficking in stolen antiquities, and 10 years later, Marion True, a curator at the Getty Museum, was charged with being a co-conspirator. As the Getty Museum’s curator of antiquities since 1986, True allegedly purchased tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Greek and Etruscan artifacts from Hecht and Medici...
...True met Hecht while working at the MFA’s department of classical art, before she attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the same year that True was charged, the MFA was accused of possessing looted artifacts through dealings with Hecht, whom Italian investigators suspected of selling or giving the museum more than 1,000 artifacts, all possibly stolen...
...inspiring performance in the song “Real Life,” where he explains his qualms about the corporate world to Jon. His deep, rich voice lends poignancy to the questions that he asks, and the shadows on his face powerfully reflect his inner torment. Emily B. Hecht ’11 plays Jon’s girlfriend, Susan, as well as several female extras with hilariously exaggerated personalities and accents. Although Hecht’s performance as Susan is strong, the lackluster chemistry between Jon and Susan is not as engaging as the sheer comedy of Hecht?...
...life. One of his shows had just failed, his girlfriend had left him, and one of his best friends had just been diagnosed with AIDS. “It feels like something that he wrote in this very intense emotional period,” says Emily B. Hecht ’11, who takes on several roles in the show. “It feels like something very real and very simply done—something that you could really see coming out of one person’s mind.” Such a play might seem self-indulgent...
...Steinemann’s directing, is much more focused on the characters, and the show is stronger for it. Myrna reveals a bit of a psychotically vicious streak that makes her far more entertaining, while Myra robs a bank and attempts to flee to Canada. Both plotlines allow Hecht to shine as she teeters on the edge of mania, while Kroop, as Myrna’s son Kenny, has the largely thankless task of being quietly nonplussed by the former and impressed by the latter...