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...taking the animals with them. Nearly one-third of the world's animals are already under the threat of extinction, and the current rate of species loss is 10,000 times the natural rate. "Global warming has such far-reaching implications [for conservation] that it's very depressing," says Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace. "Those are the thoughts that send me to the bar." It could start with polar bears, but if we can't get a handle on climate change, one more species might end up threatened...
...Imre Kertész, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and author of such novels such as Fatelessness (1975), Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990), and Liquidation (2003) won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The distinction brought Kertész, now 77, a new platform for his ideas on the impact of 20th century totalitarian politics on the individual. Kertész spoke to John Nadler in Budapest about the Nobel, novels and the threats for the 21st century...
With the orchestra arrayed behind a scrim at the back of the stage, Gene Nelson presides over the evening as master of ceremonies and song-and-dance man. Larry Kert is exceptional-especially in Maria, which he sang in the original cast of West Side Story...
COMPANY (498). If a thing of beauty is a joy forever, Company is just such a joy. As the bachelor about town touring the troubled marriages of his old friends and sampling the dubious favors of swinging singles, Larry Kert is a delight, a marvelously expressive singer and actor. Jane Russell has replaced Elaine Stritch in a key role, and while Russell doesn't have the acerb singing voice of Stritch, neither did Stritch have the opulent good looks of Russell...
...Miles of Henry Fielding's Rape Upon Rape, a ribald comedy about a corrupt magistrate whose target is damsels in distress. As was the custom of the period, the rapes will not be performed onstage. Music is by Laurie Johnson, lyrics by Lionel Bart, and Murray Matheson, Larry Kert and Travis Hudson star. East Haddam, Conn. Through...