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...culture critic who foreshadowed his grandnephew's own tussles with cynicism and faith. Aldous was a natural-born two-culture man at exactly the time when the wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection at age 16 permanently and severely impaired his vision. "I am," he wrote, "to a considerable extent a function of defective eyesight." Yet he managed to function with enormous discipline, teaching himself to read Braille?just in case?and slowly poring over books and paintings...
Directed by BOB FOSSE Screenplay by JULIAN BARRY...
...present crisis: here is the theme of In Their Wisdom. The dwindling heritage of the British Empire seems to be symbolized by the legacy of ?400,000 (more or less), perversely left by a crotchety octogenarian to the ne'er-do-well son of his nurse-secretary-companion Julian Underwood. The dead man's daughter, Jenny Rastall, contests the will. Like a La Ronde involving money instead of sex, Snow's plot circles in an ever widening spiral until the whole of '70s English society seems ensnarled in the litigation...
...Died. Julian Ormsby Gore, 33, son of Britain's Lord Harlech and archetypal playboy of London's swinging, kinky '60s; apparently by his own hand (gunshot); in London. Ormsby Gore, who worked as a waiter and male model, was found by his sister Alice, 22, in his silver-painted West London apartment, a .22-cal. pistol lying by his hand...
...Lenny. Julian Barry's loving adaptation of the life and thought of Lenny Bruce opened Tuesday after a successful run in New York. Lenny's still very funny, of course, though you won't be shocked. Tues-Fri at 8 p.m., Sat at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. At the Charles Playhouse in Boston...