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...would grasp the reins of power immediately." Complains University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a longtime court watcher: "We're just told by the authors that we've got to believe it. It's all Deep Throat-at best, hearsay twice removed." Says Critic Renata Adler, a Yale Law School graduate: "It's the most shallow and inaccurate piece of journalism I've ever seen in book form...
WHAT WOODY ALLEN brought to the movie, Renata Adler to the novel and Valerie Harper to the sit-com, playwright John Guare has now brought to the stage--that many-headed artistic monster, the Manhattan neurosis. "Bosoms and Neglect," Guare's newest play, is about therapy. It's about loneliness and "5 a.m. friends." It's about the fulminations of intelligent but broken people who are oppressed by the four walls of their Fifth Avenue apartments. Though a bit tired, these themes can usually withstand a warming over, and Guare's is articulate and wry. The trouble comes when...
There can be little argument concerning the greatness of the Pavarotti talent. TIME is to be commended for honoring it. It is a shame that in the process equally great artists such as Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo and Jon Vickers, whose artistry differs, were so cavalierly dismissed...
...fervent admirer of Signor Pavarotti's voice and technique, but I find it unfortunate that you referred to Renata Scotto in such a negative manner. In the televised La Gioconda. Scotto, singing magically, was the full embodiment of opera as drama, intense, heartbreaking and constantly exciting...
...Gioconda, it unfolded a Mediterranean saga of a mysterious letter, bitter rivalries and ominous threats. And that was only backstage. Pavarotti, who is conscientious and meticulously punctual when he finally gets down to business, clashed at rehearsal with his costar, Soprano Renata Scotto, over her lateness and somebody's fluffs (whether hers or his was part of the dispute). They even stopped in mid-aria to exchange words not found in the libretto. On the day of the gala opening, Scotto received a letter warning that a claque was planning to boo her. It was signed "Enzo Grimaldo," the character...