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...life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...Golden Globe, did much better, but that one is sung through, making it effectively a feature-length music video.) Madonna has earned the right to try whatever she likes. But if she fails, this biggest of stars falls far and hard, in front of millions. Unfortunately, Australian playwright Williamson has handed her a dud of a play (not saved by Laurence Boswell's clever production, which frames the action in a series of art installations). It's the tale of Loren, an art dealer who must sell a Jackson Pollock painting for $20 million or face a $2 million debt...
...thing to host a TV special filled with outtakes from your old CBS comedy series and knock 'em dead in the ratings. It's quite another to try a new career as a playwright. But that's what Carol Burnett has done. She and daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week...
...with a parallel acting career. DIED. KEVYN AUCOIN, 40, gay-rights activist and makeup artist to the world's prettiest, from Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder to Catherine Deneuve and Isabella Rossellini, of complications arising from a pituitary brain tumor; in New York City. HONORED. ARTHUR MILLER, 86, American playwright, with Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature, making him the first U.S. recipient of the award; in Oveido, Spain. Miller will be presented with $45,500 and a Joan Miro sculpture at a ceremony later this year by Spain's Prince Felipe of Asturias. SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN...
...just had miscalculated because I put together a playwright who is essentially a wordsmith...with a director who is essentially an auteur,” explains Brustein...