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...Jeffrey Tambor, who played Larry Sanders sidekick Hank Kingsley, is there looking tan and engaged. He proudly introduces a beautiful Polish girl as his fiancée. He has shaved off his trademark moustache, perhaps because his semi-bald-head-and-moustache look has been stolen by that strange quasi-therapist who crops up daily on "Oprah...
DIED. LEOPOLD PAGE, 87, Holocaust survivor whose zeal and persistence led to the publication (and, eventually, the film version) of Schindler's List; in Los Angeles. Polish-born Page survived World War II after being rescued from a concentration camp in 1944 when he was included in the list of 1,200 Jews that Oskar Schindler employed in his munitions factory. Owner of a leather goods shop in Beverly Hills after the war, Page spent 40 years badgering writers to take up Schindler's story, finally succeeding when Australian author Thomas Keneally came into the store to buy a briefcase...
...Furthermore, the Independent Spirit Awards have a kind of hipper-than-thou ambiance, a disdain for the big system. While this is no bad thing in itself, the tone is often that of a convention of prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...
...Some airlines are already updating their passenger information material. British Airways recently introduced a health pamphlet that travelers receive with their tickets. LOT, the Polish airline, will soon include a page of exercises in its inflight magazine. Dutch carrier KLM has launched a special website with health-related information. Airbus reports that buyers of its new A-380 aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board, a plan that could raise other safety issues. But some airlines continue to insist that DVT is the responsibility of the customer. "The risk [of DVT] does not concern the ordinary, healthy...
...DIED. BALTHUS, 92, reclusive French-born artist, considered one of the finest realist painters of the 20th century; in Rossiniere, Switzerland. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola to a Polish family living in Paris, Balthus was best known for his provocative portrayals of adolescent girls. He was one of the few artists to exhibit his work at the Louvre while still alive...