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Hearing horror stories like Dever-Bumba's is all in a day's work for Norma M. Lang, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a veteran of 35 years in nursing. "People don't trust that someone is going to take care of them," says Lang, 56. "I've heard that around the country." She cited research from her university indicating hospitals that place a high priority on nurses have a 7.7% lower mortality rate than hospitals with no such priority. "Really experienced nurses know when they walk into the room...
Rent does end on a high note: R.-and-B. superstar Stevie Wonder, who doesn't appear in the stage version, delivers an uplifting version of Seasons of Love, one of the show's signature pieces. Arif Mardin, who produced the album, says Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang were also approached to guest-star on the CD, but Wonder had the only schedule that allowed it. He's all that's needed anyway. His rendition of Seasons of Love is soulful, disarming--and something you haven't already heard even if you saw the show on Broadway...
...started to run for the exit. Just about everyone sat still for the credits, and even for the closing announcements, as though they didn't care about beating the rush. No doubt Frank Capra would have preferred it if everyone had joined in a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne"--but, for this temporary New Yorker, it was a not unimportant thing, a fleeting improvement in the city's ailing quality of life...
...house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
...Germans. On the set, instead of "Action!" he'd cry "Achtung!" Cinema Europe reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang, Sjostrom, Stiller (and his young star Greta Garbo). Some were chased there by Hitler. European cinema was nearly stripped clean...