Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a heavyweight. He has just finished work on a November TV special titled The George Burns One-Man Show and is preparing for a starring part in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A new comedy film, Oh, God!, featuring Burns in the title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others at the $125-a-plate fund raiser looked...
...much of it achieved with effects that were novel then -and are striking today. In the awesome Act II storm scene, Mozart played with orchestral color like a would-be Romanticist. Never before had Munich heard the morose strains of muted brass. He also gave the chorus a vital role that would have been daring even by the standards of French opera. The arias of opera seria had traditionally been set pieces; Mozart often led the music directly into the next bit of action, joining the seams, as it were, of a work that features at least two arias...
...Italian operas with Italian casts. The so briquet stuck, and today Founder Carol Fox, 51, has no regrets. "I just hope we're as good as La Scala," she says. As a child, Carol spent summers in Italy, soaking up the native language and music. In the role of general manager, she still returns there to audition singers. The indomitable Fox will be back next year even though her most recent reception was worse than a bad opening night. In January she was mugged and badly hurt during a Floren tine visit. Last week in Chicago she was still...
...banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
...less probable characters Alexandra has played--or rather, taken on whole-heartedly--is the role of the first female manager of the Harvard football team. But she says she's "not at all into women's lib. I like a little chauvinism," she says. "Opened doors, flowers--I like a man to be a man." Women, she says, can go as far as any male by using brains and energy, and the feminist movement denies many of the qualities she believes are essential to well, femininity...