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...ZAHA HADID, 53, avant-garde architect legendary for designs so extreme they rarely get off the drawing board; the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize; in West Hollywood, California. Since the opening of the striking, Hadid-designed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, last May, the Baghdad-born architect has received a number of commissions around the world. After winning the prize, Hadid remarked: "I suppose some will see [this] as a sign that I have gone from being a difficult person to [being] part of the Establishment...
...Rings has done more for New Zealand than any tourism campaign. Thankfully, there's plenty of the country's dreamscape left for those who want wide-screen scenery but don't care for Middle Earth hype. Base yourself in one of New Zealand's charming lodges and leave Hollywood behind...
...American. He liked to boast that despite his Russian upbringing and European background (he had danced and choreographed in Germany, France, England and Denmark), ?I?m more American than anybody.? He set ballets to the music of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa. He choreographed dances for Hollywood movies (notably the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence in On Your Toes, 1936) and Broadway musicals (including The Boys from Syracuse, 1938). He even famously devised a polka for the elephants in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus...
This was just one of several bizarre Hollywood moments that Jantzen experienced during the crazy 24-hour period after his epic performance this weekend, the climax of which came in his final bout as a collegiate wrestler, when he beat Oklahoma State’s No. 2 Zack Esposito in the last round of the NCAA tournament...
DIED. FRANCES DEE, 96, smart, lustrous star of Hollywood's golden age; in Norwalk, Conn. As a lark, after the University of Chicago, she took a bit part in movies and graduated to co-starring roles in such films as An American Tragedy, Little Women and I Walked with a Zombie. Equally impressive by Hollywood standards, she sustained a 57-year marriage to actor Joel McCrea...