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...wonder. The work is an unabashed sex comedy, a Myra Breckenridgian imbroglio of ungodly carryings-on among ancient deities. Cavalli's music floats along, endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear...
...Myra Karstadt, resident tutor in Currier House and one of the organizers of the conference, said yesterday that she "got the impression from the admissions office that if more women apply to law school, more women will be accepted...
...WHEN Myra Breckinridge premiered last July. Stanley Kauffmann wrote that John Huston's performance in such tripe was what he had come to expect from the once-deified director; that whenever he went to see a film which Huston either acted in or directed, he couldn't help thinking of how much the late James Agee had admired him. Kauffmann thought the wrong man died...
Storm Over Myra. What had gone wrong? Father and son had apparently had a falling out on a number of matters. Darryl Zanuck favored shutting down the company's costly Hollywood studios and producing movies more cheaply abroad; Richard Zanuck wanted to keep the studios going, at least until current productions were finished. Besides their business disagreements, Richard Zanuck had been impolite enough not to find film jobs for his father's friend, Starlet Genevieve Gilles...
...share of bombs too (Star!, Ché!, Dr. Dolittle). Most recently-some say at his father's insistence-he sank $23 million into Tora! Tora! Tora!, which has an uncertain financial future. He also raised a storm of public indignation by backing pop porn flicks, notably Myra Breckinridge, which has not yet made a profit, and probably never will. The board forced him to sell off another property, Portnoy's Complaint. Since 20th Century-Fox lost $25 million in 1969 and another $21 million in the first nine months of 1970, Manhattan bankers who had made big loans...