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...Shakespeare Company is finishing up its most extensive U.S. visit to date, a six-week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: His Play's The Thing | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

BORN. To winsome Oscar-winning actor DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, 41, and REBECCA MILLER, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller; a boy; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 29, 1998 | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Marty, the odds were against him. He had Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and James Dean, who had just passed away. So, many years apart, we shared an experience in our industries," she said. The FiFi will sit in the Borgnine home media center, next to Ernest's Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winner By A Nose | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...musical to new levels, their partnership was becoming increasingly strained. Hart was a serious drinker, and by the time of his last collaboration with Rodgers, By Jupiter in 1942, he was virtually an alcoholic. Rodgers was desperate. No one was more forthcoming with help than his old friend Oscar Hammerstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN :The Showmen | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Hammerstein was born in New York City on July 12, 1895. His father William was a theatrical manager; his grandfather Oscar I, a legendary impresario who took on the Metropolitan Opera by building his own opera house. The young Oscar was stagestruck from childhood, and by the time he attended Columbia University, he was performing and writing amateur routines. It was after the Saturday matinee of a college varsity revue that he first met Rodgers, whose older brother brought him to the show. Years later, remembering this meeting, Hammerstein wrote, "Behind the sometimes too serious face of an extraordinarily talented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN :The Showmen | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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