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Bing and Callas sparred continually over her roles and her schedules. In 1959, after she refused to sing Traviata and Macbeth in the same week, Bing fired her. Callas snarled publicly about "those lousy Traviatas that he wanted me to do." Bing riposted: "Mme. Callas is constitutionally unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear...
This novel should surprise those who think that the only Scottish murder mystery is Macbeth. Set in contemporary Glasgow, it has not a bonny brae nor a twirling tartan to its name; but it offers an assortment of colorful underworld types who demonstrate that tough talk is not softened when it is spoken with a burr. Laidlaw is also the first police procedural by Scottish Author William McIlvanney, 41, who has written three earlier novels and a book of poems, none published in the U.S. Like the whiskies of his native land, Mcllvanney's debut here comes after appropriate...
...perhaps not quite the word for her roles as a double agent in Marathon Man and as a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. "I couldn't connect with that part, it was so violent," she says. "I played it cold, without emotion, like I would do Lady Macbeth." Her next appearance will be in Bobby Deerfield with her real-life love Al Pacino. She is also signed to play in Director Billy Wilder's movie of Thomas Tryon's bestseller Crowned Heads. Her role: Fedora, a mysterious Hollywood actress who has in her something of Garbo, Dietrich...
Welles: I'd like to see more movies made in the way my Macbeth...
Robin Hood, with Shakespeare's Macbeth will be presented by the Boston Shakespeare Company. Robin Hood will be based on the Howard Pyle stories, and play on Friday and Saturday at 8. Macbeth is showing Thursdays at 8. Both dramas are at the Theatre, corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets...