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CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
Upriver is Rouen, capital of Upper Normandy, where Flaubert was reared, Joan of Arc burned and Monet inspired. The great Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame miraculously survived the wartime bombings, but all the city's old bridges and many buildings were destroyed. Farther south and east the Normandie slips beneath the cliffs high above Les Andelys, where Richard the Lion-Hearted's Chateau Gaillard stands watch over the valleys below. Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June...
Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
...Despite these shortcomings, Carson has enjoyed unprecedented affection from a notoriously fickle audience. His annual income is estimated at $20 million. For more than 25 years, a series of diverse personalities, including Dick Cavett, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers and Alan Thicke, have tried in vain to depose him. Perhaps the best explanation for Carson's durability comes from the King himself. "If I had given as much to marriage as I gave to the Tonight show," he told the Los Angeles Times, "I'd probably have a hell of a marriage. But the fact is I haven't given that...