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...calm Richard Bolware '90-'93, dispatcher, is training two new recruits. "There is this guy who always calls," he says. "I'm not sure what his name is exactly. He calls himself '007.' He says very crazy sort of Dennis Hopper-type-movie things: 'I'm down here at CIA headquarters; come pick me up. I need an escort from Nashville, Tennessee to New York City.'" Michelle R. Kawamoto '95, one of the trainees, jumps in. "He calls here and has these theories about who assassinated JFK. Sometimes they'll put him on the PA system and everyone will listen...
...director in Europe from America,'' he says. Especially in Germany, land of state subsidies and a public that may have seen 50 versions of Figaro, he may go the experimental route. In Bonn in April, for instance, he will produce a Manon Lescaut inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. In the U.S., where opera must pay for itself, companies can rarely afford productions that may be one-year sensations. When Met general manager Joseph Volpe ordered up Butterfly, he wanted a show that could be admired for as long as its predecessor lasted--36 years...
...director in Europe from America," he says. Especially in Germany, land of state subsidies and a public that may have seen 50 versions of Figaro, he may go the experimental route. In Bonn in April, for instance, he will produce a Manon Lescaut inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. In the U.S., where opera must pay for itself, companies can rarely afford productions that may be one-year sensations. When Met general manager Joseph Volpe ordered up Butterfly, he wanted a show that could be admired for as long as its predecessor lasted-36 years...
...Dennis Hopper: Bruce Smith's shoe, man, a new overcoat and a life-time supply of "Halitosis" breath freshener...
Speed. Another action movie, I know, but my expectations were so low, and it was so much fun. Dennis Hopper was much better in Red Rock West, a movie released earlier this year that deserved a better fate than it got, and Keanu Reeves was passable, though much better than when he played one of the world's most important religious figures in Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci's failed attempt to recapture the pomp and pageantry that won him a Best Picture Oscar for The Last Emperor...