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Perhaps the most endearing portrait is that of the eccentric Richardson. Directing Guinness in an Old Vic production of Richard II, Sir Ralph had only a few words of advice. Holding up a sharpened pencil, he said, "Play it like this pencil, old cock." Guinness admits that he was not greatly illuminated, and his Richard was a failure of which he is still ashamed...
...wishes to become an Anglican priest. And Chatterway's reappearance, as an old friend of his wife's side of the family, has further disrupted Nettleship's domestic routine. The scandalmonger comes calling, along with Egg and a young artist who has been working on the old poet's portrait. Horace does not like to see his womenfolk, particularly his beloved daughter Maudie, 16, in such raffish company. So he does the only sensible thing and forbids wife and child to receive the gossip and painter at home again...
...This portrait of the student as conformist and joiner provides a dramatic contrast with the bitterly anti-Establishment days of the Viet Nam War and its aftermath. Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were...
Reddin is bringing off a rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly...
Legend has it that the painting was once acquired by Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco as a gift for Adolf Hitler. If so, it was never delivered, and since then the 1805 portrait of a reclining beauty holding a Greek lyre has rarely been seen in public. That obscurity is now a thing of the past for . the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, a 54-in. by 78-in. painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when...