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...looks like a hotel and it feels very commercial,” said Lloyd P. Zuckerberg, who helped lead an alumni campaign against the building. “I wish its aesthetics were consistent with the Harvard look...
...murky bottom of Scotland's fabled Loch Ness, dauntless Englishman LLOYD SCOTT walked 26 miles over 12 days to raise money for children with leukemia. When Scott, 41, a leukemia survivor, finally emerged from the water wearing his antique diving suit and 40lb. helmet, he appeared as peculiar as anything ever rumored to be lurking there...
Olivia Hunt, 34, is a loser. She lost her job at Universal Studios after the movie she worked on--Lloyd, the Hamster--flopped at the box office. Her dream project, a film adaptation of Don Quixote, is going nowhere. Her boyfriend Michael recently bailed on her. And she just noticed a mustache hair on her upper lip. "Jimmy Stewart," she writes to a friend, "had a helluva lot more to live for when he tried to off himself in It's a Wonderful Life...
...hard to imagine a more garishly perfect show-business union than Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bollywood. Lloyd Webber, of course, is the British showman who created such over-the-top, pack-'em-in productions as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Starlight Express. Bollywood is the name for India's film industry, which each year churns out close to 1,000 films, virtually all weepy melodramas staged as singing, dancing, multiple-costume-changing revues. Three years ago, fate brought Lloyd Webber and celebrated Indian composer A.R. Rahman together, and so was born Bombay Dreams, a campy bildungsroman that follows...
...first time, Lloyd Webber did not compose the songs for one of his productions, ceding that honor to Rahman, 37, who has scored more than 50 Bollywood films and sold more CDs than Britney and Madonna combined. The music, a raga pastiche, is poppy and hummable and digestible for Western tastes. London critics were mixed on the show but almost unanimously besotted with Rahman's score. Though he bowed out as composer, Lloyd Webber remained an actively involved producer, and his penchant for spectacle is heavily in evidence. Among other special effects, rivers of water splash onto the stage, creating...