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DIED. FREDERICK REINES, 80, Nobel-prizewinning scientist known as the father of neutrino physics; in Orange, Calif. Undeterred by skeptics who doubted the invisible neutrino's existence, Reines persevered, often locking himself for hours in his lab, where he could be heard indulging his other great passion: singing opera...
There's some fun seeing Canadians like Myers and Neve Campbell (as a soap-opera star) try out their lumpen tristate accents. And the music still has its innocent juice. But the film is just one more sound-track CD in search of a plot. Or maybe we're already sick of the polyester '70s. Why couldn't 54 have been the year instead of the club...
High Noon, an opera by composer Stewart Wallace and lyricist Michael Korie, explored the mythology of the American West and examined violence in American society...
...power was through a prominent man. She is a product of indulgent, divorced Beverly Hills parents. As mothers go, I don't know any quite like Monica's, and have trouble finding a touchstone: Madonna (the current one)? A character out of Dynasty (Monica's favorite soap opera)? Monica and her mom aren't simply close, as most stories posit; instead, they're gal pals, dieting together since Monica was a chubby eight-year-old, moving in as roommates after the divorce, swapping clothes and dating strategies. Were my daughter to tell me she was having an affair with...
...elegant curtain of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House rose to reveal a seedy-looking bar. A drummer rapped out four crisp rim shots, and three dancers in bell-bottom trousers charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music...