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...Callas, the subject of such ire and much admiration? She was a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented. Tempestuous, unpredictable, charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...
...Farrah Fawcett-Majors, fame and fortune at 30 means that she and Husband Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man) can hardly poke their heads out of their big Bel Air home without being mobbed. Says the Texas-born prima inter pares star of TV's Charlie's Angels: "The spontaneity is gone. We used to be able to fly to Las Vegas for a night. Now if we want to go away we have to rent a place on a desert island as Mr. and Mrs. Doe." Los Angeles Author Nicholas Meyer, also 30 and a new millionaire...
Maria Tallchief Paschen, D.A.. prima ballerina...
...water." But it served to attract influential critics, and propelled him to local prominence. Like many in his privileged caste, Ivan furthered his education in Western Europe. On the Continent, the perpetual bachelor commenced the affair that was to last a lifetime. Heinrich Heine provides the best description of Prima Donna Pauline Viardot: "Her ugliness is of a kind that is noble and, if I might almost say beautiful, such as sometimes enchanted and inspired the great lion-painter Delacroix." She was married -and remained married-to Louis Viardot, a prosperous litterateur. Viardot and Turgenev met and found much...
...ample public reputation--while his belly shrinks on a rigid diet--with the television broadcast of "Boheme" brought to us straight from the artistic stage of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Now that the country is high on an opera binge (where else in the world can a prima donna double as a talk show host?) the time seems ripe to put the latter of these two opera giants in its proper place. Like much else of him, his reputation is far overblown...