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Motion picture mogul Joseph E. Levine was presented the "Producer of the Year" award by the Herman J. Mankiewicz Winthrop House Film Society last night...
...16th century, the Mogul Emperor Akbar the Great decided to erect a new capital for his empire on the dry plains of northern India. Vast amounts of money were spent, and the best architects and artisans were hired to lay out its imposing squares and build its graceful, airy palaces. Virtually untouched by the centuries, Fatehpur Sikri still stands-a beautiful monument to bad planning. Just 15 years after it was completed, Akbar's capital exhausted its water supply and was summarily abandoned...
...Craig also broods about his past (he has been an s.o.b. to a lot of little people) and agonizes over his future. His soul-searching is sup ported by a pulpy cast that includes his own Antonioni-bred daughter, his Irish agent, an embittered ex-screenwriter, an aging movie mogul, several leering French waiters and - since this is Cannes - a falling-down-drunk film critic...
Married. Charlotte Ford, 32, elder daughter of Automobile Mogul Henry Ford II; and J Anthony Forstmann, 35, head of a New York investment firm; both for the second time; in Manhattan. A longtime member of the Sun Valley-St.-Moritz set, Ford surprised suitors and family alike in 1965 with her marriage to Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos, then 56. The couple had one daughter before their 14-month marriage ended in divorce...
...bigger its scale, the more "important" the picture: so a common American reflex goes. Indian art never shared it. The proof is India's most developed form of painting: the miniature. Commissioned by rajahs, Moguls and well-off merchants, bound in albums and luxuriously scrutinized, these tiny images were as important in the East -from the 16th century onward-as panel painting in the West. The spring exhibition at Manhattan's Asia House is "A Flower from Every Meadow," a selection of 86 Indian paintings ranging in date from about 1520 to 1900. Chosen and elegantly catalogued...