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...this has happened on the screen. Now Russell has turned to the stage for the first time-directing, of all unlikely things, Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress at the 45th Maggio Musicale festival in Florence. Stravinsky, whose centenary is being celebrated this year, conducted the premiere of The Rake in Venice in 1951, and the work has acquired the status of a classic among the composer's admirers. But Russell, ever the iconoclast, has turned it upside down. The jejune quality of Stravinsky's cool, mock-Mozartian music is engulfed in a rush...
...right, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, 54. The veteran actor was set to throw out the ceremonial first ball at last week's World Series opener. Then Kuhn invoked a policy that excludes actors and politicians from "first-ball ceremonies," and substituted former Yankee Great Joe Di Maggio, 66. Fans and press protested so loudly that Kuhn, with unaccustomed nimbleness, swiftly re-evaluated Cagney as "a national treasure" and gave his blessing for him to throw out the first ball of the second game. When Cagney finally delivered his pitch, it was a Yankee-Doodle dandy...
...full employment." If Democratic Agenda truly represents "all progressive constituencies" the the left is seriously arthritic. Almost every spokesman at the rally was a veteran, most well past the zenith of their influence. Gloria Steinem called for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Cesar Chavez wants a boycott of Maggio brand carrots. And United Auto Workers president Douglas Fraser said his constituency was interested in a single issue--more jobs...
...Edward DiPietro, aged 35, and Joseph Maggio, aged 31, await sentencing on June 5 by U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. They each face jail terms of up to five years and/or fines...
...undercover agents traced DiPietro and Maggio, both Boston-area residents, and purchased four of the paintings in Brookline and two in Rhode Island, in Octover...