Word: mias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh off the boat from Italy, gourd-shaped Giulio Gatti-Casazza heads straight for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. As the newly appointed general manager of the Met, he is eager to have a look at his new home. Mama mia! What he sees is enough to curl his beard. It's bad enough that the exterior looks like a brewery. But the backstage area is so cramped that it can hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building...
...Modified Mia. The windup last week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was plant ed on the 10-yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...
...tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then she headed home in her chartered Aero Commander...
...golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life. It is invisible because it defies chronology. It measures age not by a date on a calendar but by a dance of the mind. Just prior to last week's marriage of Frank Sinatra, 50, to Mia Farrow, 21, Mia's mother Maureen O'Sullivan, 55, was asked how she felt about the 29-year age discrepancy. Said she: "It means nothing. I know people who are antiques at 35 and others who can watusi...
...account of a recent album he recorded, Frank Sinatra, 50, is in the September of his years. But as the days dwindle down to a precious few, he's decided to make the most of them by marrying Mia Farrow, 21, Maureen O'Suilivan's actress daughter. After keeping steady company with her for more than a year, Frankie took her home to mother and gave her a ding-a-ding ring, nine carats heavy and worth something like $100,000. Said Old Pal Joey Bishop: "It looked like Plymouth Rock had been lowered onto Columbus Circle...