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...wrote Rossellini a letter, offering to work for him, she had enjoyed a lucky life. As a Stockholm teenager, she got the first movie job she ever tried for. By the time she turned 24 she had made eleven movies, including Intermezzo, in which she played a young pianist who has a bittersweet affair with an older man, a famous violinist. David O. Selznick had bought the remake rights in 1939 and brought Bergman to Hollywood to re-create her role opposite Leslie Howard. The film made her a star, and Selznick made an image for this shy, frugal, occasionally...
...kind of freedom. But I'm writing a novel about that too, about those same themes of isolation. It's called An Evening of Brahms. It's about New York in the '60s. The story is very simple. The young woman is a pianist, and she contracts cancer, and her husband leaves her, in a rage, before she dies. And after she dies, he conducts a performance of the Brahms Requiem, and the last part of the novel is entirely about what's going through his mind. And it's a novel about...
...example, passengers were encouraged to wear '20s finery, and many did so. On current trips, passengers often don evening clothes for dinner, and the champagne, a special V.S.O.E. label bottled by Laurent Perrier, flows freely. And as Sherwood has promised, "The bar-salon stays open, and our pianist plays on, until the last guest has retired." "When a Broadway baby says good night," plunks Giany Bars at the baby grand piano, "it's early in the morning...
...work of science fiction can be its author's autobiography, the boy here is Steven Spielberg. His parents seeded the mix of science and art that would surface in Spielberg's films: his father Arnold was a computer engineer, his mother Leah a former classical pianist. (They were divorced when Steven was 17.) In many ways, he was a typical boy. He loved animals, especially cocker spaniels-and parakeets, which he kept in his bedroom, flying free. "There would be birds flying around and birdseed all over the floor," recalls Leah, now 62 and the owner-operator...
Fluxus was less a defined art movement than a loose anarchist confederacy, given to ritual gestures of protest against "high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts...