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Before he was locked up in New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center last May to await trial on racketeering charges, reputed Mafia Boss John $ Gotti, 45, was known for his expensive Italian suits and impeccable grooming...
Life, death, sex, politics, family problems: all familiar themes on the opera stage, but usually performed by a cast of thousands. Last week Comic Robin Williams, 34, filled the cavernous stage of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House all by himself for two sold-out shows that were taped by HBO for a broadcast special. As usual, his seemingly extemporaneous material was achingly funny, mostly ribald and partly tailored to his surroundings: "Imagine Pavarotti at the Improv (comedy club)," he mused. Saluting the opera house itself, Williams called its huge crystal chandeliers "earrings from the Imelda Marcos collection...
With well-known contributors like William F. Buckley and Joyce Carol Oates, Art & Antiques has gained a reputation for provocative reporting. One article last year raised questions (still unresolved) about the authenticity of the Antioch chalice, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and purported to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper. A few months ago, a man speaking broken English wandered into the magazine's offices. He turned out to be carrying slides smuggled out of the Soviet Union showing works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts never before seen in the West...
Landing the Wyeth interview was "pure dumb luck," says Schaire, 32, the magazine's energetic executive editor, whose first art job was driving a forklift for the Metropolitan Museum's gift-shop warehouse. He requested the interview by letter in November 1984 (enclosing a copy of the magazine with a cover story on, coincidentally, "Winslow Homer's Mystery Woman"). Six months later a Wyeth intermediary replied that the publicity-shy artist would agree to talk...
...lately there has been something of a Ring boomlet in America. The San Francisco Opera unveiled its splendid Ring last summer; the Dallas Opera has produced all four segments in the past five years; there is a production under way at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. Next month the Metropolitan Opera begins its new Ring with the second opera in the cycle, Die Walkure. Yet for sheer audaciousness, none of these companies are likely to rival the Seattle Opera, which opened a new Ring last week to an invigorating chorus of lusty cheers and outraged boos. Long coddled by safe, representational...