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...path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead or wishing they were. A novel of letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. The R.S.C. staging, which won the 1986 Olivier award for best play, the West End's equivalent of the Tony, has been imported intact. Last week it set Broadway ablaze...
Gorbachev is the ablest of the Soviet leaders I've met. He's charismatic, eloquent and highly intelligent. If he were a candidate in our elections, he'd be a surefire winner. He's even interested in reforms. But he's not a philanthropist. So why is he accepting the zero option? Why is he willing to give up more intermediate-range warheads than we would have to give...
...Treasury Secretary to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Only one direct descendant, Seward Prosser Mellon, 44, still serves on the board, but family members together hold 15% of the bank's stock, providing effective control. They picked as Barnes' acting replacement Nathan Pearson, 75, a longtime financial adviser to Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who holds 9% of the bank's shares. Heading the search committee that begins meeting this week to find Barnes' successor is Andrew Mathieson, who advises the heirs of Andrew Mellon's nephew, Richard King Mellon. Two names are believed to have the committee's interest: David Nordby...
...critics praise Eastwood's solution to the thorny Mission Ranch dilemma. Developers coveted the bucolic 22-acre parcel along Carmel's southern border. To keep them at bay, the new mayor sought a solution that would not burden taxpayers. "I thought I could come up with a dream philanthropist," he says. After canvassing the candidates, Clint found his man: "The guy I talked into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What...
...wealthy philanthropist, former congressmen, and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, Littauer hoped to establish a school to provide training in a "broad way for public service...