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...West End but behind the doors of two tiny fringe theaters. One is the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, headed by Sam Mendes, whose film debut American Beauty won him last year's Best Director Oscar. The other is the Almeida Theatre in Islington, steered by director Jonathan Kent and actor Ian McDiarmid - familiar to movie fans as the Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series. These two hotspots have assumed a place-to-be-seen buzz among theater-goers...
...geographically at least - is the Almeida. Last year it produced Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus starring Ralph Fiennes, not on its own stage but at the derelict Gainsborough Film Studios. Now, forced to leave their 300-seat Islington base while $6 million in renovations are carried out, Kent and McDiarmid have spent $1.2 million fixing up a long-closed bus station at King's Cross as an alternative home. The result is one of the most unusual and invigorating spaces in London...
...have seen no evidence of Cheney's being depressed or acting screwy or forgetting things. He seems the perfect Duke of Kent, who was King Lear's bluff, loyal, sane liege man and exec. I am not 100% about my own sanity. I certainly have had bouts of the bypass depression...
DIED. JAMES A. RHODES, 91, Ohio's longest-serving Governor, who in May 1970 dispatched the National Guard to Kent State University to quell anti-Vietnam protests; in Columbus, Ohio. In Rhodes' 16-year tenure, Ohio's economy and public university system flourished, but history will always note the fateful May afternoon when soldiers killed four students and injured nine...
With only seven seconds to play in double overtime--Vermont's longest game ever and Clarkson's second-longest ever--Golden Knights' rookie Rob McFeeters netted a low shot from the slot off a pass from Kent Huskins at the blue line...