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...Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped 300 yds. of hand-blocked Indian fabric to form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays for dinner perhaps four nights a week, and Franco, Justin's Italian chef, whips up a meatless pasta for her mostly vegetarian diet. She eats fish, but no meat. Most of their friends are in show business, but their notion...
Mother Waddles' appearance suggests Aunt Jemima rather than St. Charleszetta, but the mayor's description of her is apt. In her "Perpetual Mission," open 24 hours a day on Gratiot Avenue in the city's black ghetto, Mother Waddles and 30 volunteers operate on the skimpiest of budgets; she is currently $65,000 in debt. This year the mission will feed some 100,000 indigents, distribute 1,400 Christmas baskets, serve 400 hot Christmas dinners and provide college scholarships for 100 high school graduates. Mrs. Waddles and her ten children, who range in age from...
...Beatrix was phenomenally successful; Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and the Flopsy Bunnies are her most famous characters. And though popular success for a writer of Children's fantasies is not unusual, intelligent appreciation by adults...
...been duplicated, even by Disney. Fortunately a British gentleman of Potterian sympathy has found an ideal method of adaptation-the dance. Using members of the Royal Ballet, Choreographer Frederick Ashton has literally given Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter a new dimension. Jeremy Fisher the Frog, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mr. Fox and Co. spring and caper like Steiff toys given the spark of life. Around them spreads England's green and pleasant Lake District from which Beatrix drew her inspiration...
From the first chord of "Jemima Surrender" to the last note of "Slippin" and Slidin it was as though The Band derived a peculiar pleasure from the very act of being on stage, playing their music. There was Richard Manuel, head turned away from the piano, eyes closed, his melodic voice drifting into the microphone. There was Levon Helm on drums, delivering the amazingly steady, but unobtrusive, beat that drives The Band. His eyes, too. were closed his head turned to the microphone. There was Rick Danko playing his archaic Fender Precision bass. But, oh, how he played...