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"Fall River Legend," the opening piece, is an adaptation of Morton Gould's full score for the Agnes DeMille ballet about Lizzie Borden, the same one who "took an ax" and "gave her parents forty whacks." Thought it calls for fewer than 20 performers, it requires them to sound like...
In a sense, the millennium is Bill Clinton's larger theater; for him there is a balm in chiliad. World War II, of course, was no illusion. The millennium is a sort of hallucination--the calendar's neverland. That's all right; Bill Clinton is a magnificent illusionist.
LOS ANGELES: Adriana Caselotti never forgot that she was Snow White. As the ethereal voice behind Walt Disney's 1934 cartoon embodiment of wide-eyed virtue, Caselotti placed a wishing well in her front yard and a recording of "I'm Wishing" on her telephone answering machine. The 80-year...
By now, the surreal videotapes have become hauntingly familiar. Look at the face: the huge, inviting mascaraed eyes, the fluttering false lashes, the layers of professionally applied makeup, the highlighted, upswept hair. Look at the clothes: the hand-stitched gowns, the Princess Di chapeaus, the high heels. Then do a...
Short on cash? Here's one way to make tens of millions of dollars without even being good at your job! It's simple. First, be MIKE OVITZ. Next get hired by Disney and do such lame work that the Mouseketeers terminate your contract 14 months later. Then you'll...