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...Simon & Schuster; paper; $30). These pictures from Rolling Stone pose the question why, after years of star-gazing, we still find these faces affecting. Perhaps we needed time's wear and tear to catch up with the overnight ravages shown in the portraits selected for this celebrity retrospective. Janis Joplin is slumped on a torn couch clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort; a slumbering Keith Richards slides off a folding chair. Others superstars appear to take fame in stride: a youthful Arnold Schwarzenegger mugs like a film noir actor of the '40s; and a yet-to-be- President Ronald Reagan...
...summers between his college years, Restic was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Playing for a farm team in Salina, Ks., a medium-sized city about 15 miles from Ike Eisenhower's hometown, he had the experience of striking out Mickey Mantle, then a player for the Yankees' Joplin, Mo. farm team. Unbeknownst to him, however, his pro play was illegal given his school-year activities at Villanova, an infringement he paid for by forfeiting two years of eligibility at the college...
...women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, a musing on the turn-of-the-century black composer and an unknown peer that arrives off- Broadway this week. The company's longtime artistic director, Stan Wojewodski Jr., moved up to Yale two years ago as dean of the drama school and artistic director of the prestigious...
...SCOTT JOPLIN, JAMES SCOTT AND JOSEPH Lamb may have been the Big Three composers of the ragtime era, but there were a host of others, many of them (yes!) women. Twelve are represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm...
Like its incendiary subject, X is notable not only for its accomplishment but also for what it represents. Before X, the number of great authentic African-American operas stood at precisely one: Scott Joplin's underrated Treemonisha, which foreshadowed X's themes of black self-reliance and self- determination by 70 years. In between came the faux noir of Porgy and Bess, which is really a Russian grand opera in blackface (the choral scenes are closer to Rimsky-Korsakov or Mussorgsky than they are to anything Catfish Row ever heard). With a fierce, angry and brilliant libretto by Thulani Davis...