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...guess I'll wait until I fall off the lecturing podium or they carry me out," he jokes. "I don't think about [retirement]," he adds...
...this unusual note, Oliver Stone entered the room and shuffled up to the stage. Looking haggard and exhausted, Stone stood, slightly slumped, over the podium and apologized to the audience for his lack of energy. The firebrand of many a TV interview lamented the day's six previous publicity-engagements and mumbled, "Live television is torture...it's demeaning." The publicity-hungry Oliver Stone of Natural Born Killers, of endless controversy and extremist rhetoric, was clearly nowhere to be found...
...billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...perfectly happy," says the political powerhouse, with a satisfied tone that barely betrays the chaos of appointments she has so carefully arranged like David Copperfield's indestructible house of cards. From the Council podium to administrative lunches and back to dinner in Adams house, Lamelle and her septanote have got it covered...
...prodded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the front of the world stage; in Antibes, France. During his conducting debut at the Budapest Opera, Solti's audience fled--not from his Mozart, but out of fear that Hitler, then in Vienna, was fast approaching. Never again. On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians. His athleticism won the orchestra 23 Grammy Awards during his 22-year reign...