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More than two centuries later, Jonathan Swift's grim portrait of senescence delivers a double-edged message. On the one hand, it describes the classic image of old age that still predominates: a period of inevitable and distressing physical and mental decline. On the other, it starkly illustrates the folly of life lived too long--a dilemma that is at the heart of today's debate about the consequences of increased longevity...
Until now. After the drought, the deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
...years ago, while he was passionately setting New York City's East Village Bohemian life to song in Rent, the late composer Jonathan Larson helped support himself by creating music that had little to do with the world of the tongue-pierced. He was a children's songwriter, composing music for Sesame Street as well as a number of tunes for kids' book-cassettes, including one based on Steven Spielberg's An American Tail...
...Harvard Crimson, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe all wrote articles in July spotlighting the $6.2 million package paid to Senior Vice President for Foreign Equity Jonathan S. Jacobson...
...rock stars, it has been an all too popular way. The music industry has been rocked, in the past few years, by the drug-related deaths of Nirvana's Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and more recently Blind Melon's front man Shannon Hoon and Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin. As for Nowell, his bandmates say they tried to help him. Recalls Wilson: "If you tried to talk to him about it, he would get mad. He thought he was invincible. When someone would die, other artists, he'd just go, 'O.K., they're stupid, they shot too much...