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...DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
DIED. HURD HATFIELD, 80, actor; in Monkstown, Ireland. Best remembered as the lead in 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Manhattan-born Hatfield was famed for his arrogant manner. He appeared in such movies as Jean Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid...
...Jean, played by Jorge Rodriguez '99, gives us one of the high points of the production when he transforms himself into a rhinoceros on stage. This metamorphosis begins only with a headache but gradually Jean's voice grows hoarse and he begins to pace about his bedroom with his head lowered, breathing heavily and nearly knocking over the concerned Berenger. It is chilling to hear Jean's headstrong rhetoric take on the animal tone of totalitarianism. "I have a goal, I charge straight at it... We must reconstitute the foundations of our life. We must return to the primal integrity...
...action. And from that standpoint, the film succeeds. To an audience that knows the TV program well, these are not actors playing roles - they are the characters. We don't see accomplished Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart successfully portraying a science fiction character; we see our old friend, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise...
...JEAN-MARIE TJIBAO CULTURAL CENTER, NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA Never heard of Tjibao? Don't know New Caledonia from Old? Hardly matters. The silhouette of this arts complex is so eye catching that unlike much modern architecture, it doesn't need to be explained to be liked. But it helps to know that Renzo Piano designed the slatted wooden sails of the center as a tribute to the local building traditions, as wind shields and as thermal chimneys that promote airflow...