Word: herman
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...blow up in the pages of Vogue. Newton's memoir all but laughs off the worst of Nazism, but leaf through his saw-toothed magazine work or climb the barbed wire of White Women, his first, unforgettable photo book, and you find yourself remembering what D.H. Lawrence said of Herman Melville: "Choosingly, he was looking for paradise. Unchoosingly, he was mad with hatred of the world." The Helmut Newton we meet in Autobiography is the one looking for paradise, the man on the make, the guy Hitler never laid a glove on. And the turbulent man we meet...
DIED. MICKIE MOST, 64, successful music producer who helped mold the sound of the British Invasion; of cancer; in London. Famous for his sharp yet adventurous ear for pop songs, he discovered the Animals and Herman's Hermits, shaped the careers of such solo artists as Donovan and Lulu, and produced such hits as the Animals' House of the Rising Sun, Donovan's Mellow Yellow and the Hermits' I'm into Something Good...
After just one year of training in the Groundlings, a group that had included other famous comedians like Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, Pee Wee Herman, and Jon Lovitz, Ferrell was asked to join the group as a performer...
...Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater last fall presented writer-director Eric Simonson's big, imaginatively staged adaptation of Moby Dick; there was no whale, but a surprising amount of Herman Melville's imposing novel made it onstage. (Adaptations of epic novels, like John Irving's Cider House Rules, have a habit of flopping in New York.) Houston's enterprising Alley Theater last fall staged a fine production of The General from America, Richard Nelson's brooding, against-the-grain, surprisingly convincing historical drama about Benedict Arnold. (The play later opened off-Broadway, where the critics, predictably, dissed...
...anarchy by design. An organization called Direct Action Against the War was loosely responsible for the San Francisco protests. Its leaders picked a time, sent e-mail to sympathetic groups as disparate as Food Not Bombs and the Lutheran Peace Fellowship and organized a 10-minute orientation at Justin Herman Plaza on the tenets of civil disobedience (and on the importance of preparing a sound bite if you are arrested near a camera crew). Then the groups scattered. Police couldn't follow the mob because the mob was everywhere and nowhere, working in tiny, constantly evolving cells. In their obstreperous...