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Anyone who doubts that life is unfair should meet Renee Fleming. She's an international opera star blessed with a warm, creamy, lyric-soprano voice and show-stopping good looks. Signatures: Great Opera Scenes (London), her latest CD, has hit the classical charts. Andre Previn is composing an operatic version of A Streetcar Named Desire especially for her (the San Francisco Opera will give the premiere next season). And as if all that weren't enough, she has two children, sings jazz on the side and is notorious for being...a really nice person...
...star Maureen O'Sullivan; her father, John Farrow, a director). Among her contemporaries were Candice Bergen and Liza Minnelli. Farrow went on to a major movie career of her own (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby). She married Frank Sinatra while still in her teens, and, later, conductor Andre Previn...
Writing about Sinatra and Previn, who was out touring for most of their marriage, Farrow is fairly mild, even philosophical. With Allen she is bitter and exacting. Minor flaws are recorded, right down to his carefully assembled casual look in clothes. Allen was fastidious. When her sister came around in a pink T shirt, he was scornful. From the start, Farrow was frustrated by his indifference to her ever growing family. Why did she keep adopting? She traces the inspiration to her son Moses, the first child she took in who was afflicted (with cerebral palsy). He was a gentle...
Afterword: Soon-Yi Previn still lives with Woody Allen. According to a spokeswoman for Allen, he considers the book Farrow's way of using Dylan to avenge herself against him. As for Farrow, her kids now range from a law school graduate to a toddler. Wait till they start writing...
This piece bears the influence of both Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and should accordingly be both effusive and dazzling. Under Previn, it was both, and he managed to keep it crisp all throughout. This control should make for a wonderful Shostakovitch's Eighth next week...