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...School of Music. For his piano audition he transposed Goodnight, Irene into different keys on demand. He was seven at the time. This year, at 29, he became the first individual ever to win three Academy Awards in one night: the first for his adaptation of Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, the second and third for the score and title song of The Way We Were. After his final sprint to center stage, Hamlisch said to the audience: "I think we can talk to each other as friends...
...Sting, however, was a snap. Director George Roy Hill had already decided to use Joplin's classic rags and, admits Hamlisch, "I was like an East Side tailor. I'd stitch in a minute of music here, 35 seconds there-it took only eight hours to do the whole...
...read books like the bestseller. Portrait of a Marriage, in which Nigel Nicolson tells about the affairs that his happily married mother, Poet Vita Sackville-West, had with Novelists Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. Other women, living and dead, whose bisexuality has recently been made known include Singer Janis Joplin, Writer Dorothy Thompson and Actresses Tallulah Bankhead and Maria (Last Tango) Schneider. "It has become very fashionable in elite and artistically creative subgroups to be intrigued by the notion of bisexuality," says Psychiatrist Norman Fisk of the Gender Dysphoria Program at Stanford University Medical School. It may very well...
...England Conservatory. The conservatory's jazz ensemble plays a program of Ellington tunes Friday, May 10, at Jordan Hall, 8:30 p.m., $2. The ragtime ensemble will feature some Scott Joplin rags at its concert Sunday, May 12 at Jordan Hall. Call 536-2412 for information...
...arms and she's wrapped an Indian shawl around her for a skirt, and she's braided beads into her hair and painted her face in green and white diamonds. And then she just struts around for a while, singing to herself like she's trying to be Joplin. Well, I thought, she was pretty far out and we started talking. She came in every day after that, just horsed around and next thing I know she's moved right in, with me, I mean...