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...told to take off her bathing suit and change--right there in the wings. Bergeron, now 77 but a decorous 15 at the time, refused: "So two chaperones built a little screen around me, and I put on the gown. Six boys and two girls put a gorgeous robe over my shoulder--it had a train half the size of our living room--and the band played Stars and Stripes Forever." When the flash cameras started popping like metallic champagne corks, "I felt like I'd been hit with a stun...
...announcement that "The Bridges of Madison County" has fallen off the New York Times bestseller list, ending a 162-week run during which the book sold 10 million copies. "Bridges" first hit the list in August 1992, and has stayed there longer than any fiction book since "The Robe" captivated readers in the 1950's for 178 straight weeks. "People got the book, the movie, the calendar, the follow-up books, the record," says Luscombe. "But when they released the scent, people realized this whole thing was just a tired marketing ploy and they lost interest. Either that, or everyone...
...Hill--without, of course, the late British comic's leering smirk. Her voice is high-pitched, nasal and a trifle slurred, her frequent laugh a piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some critics call her "the zinging nun" for her forthright attacks on feminists and other...
...music changes, the monks strip off their black robe--along with their ascetic--vows and the piece becomes more gender-conscious, an examination of revelry, love and, as the program notes, "the ever-changing fate of man." The backdrop is lit at the start and end of the piece with a medeival drawing of the Wheel of Fate; the images change throughout the piece, as does the lighting, music and mood...
Jenny then paid a visit from upstairs, and the group's conversation shifted to the question of what she wears under her robe. She told them she was wearing a nightie, but not a bra because one doesn't wear bras...