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...most of her hearing. Today she can just barely discern the loud ring of a telephone right next to her ear, and she can sense rather than hear the rumble of a jet plane overhead. Her determination and natural talent, however, were enough to qualify her for London's Royal Academy of Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with...
...Watching the young actor, Postlethwaite recalls, "We all saw all this extraordinary pyrotechnic work going on, and we thought, 'Oh, no, not another one of these! Can't we lose him somewhere?' " Not a chance. Day-Lewis joined the West End hit Another Country, then played Romeo for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1986 he appeared in the National Theatre staging of The Futurists, directed by Richard Eyre. Three years later, he again teamed with Eyre for a notorious Hamlet...
...Holbrook did in evoking Mark Twain. Sometimes an actor merely read passages stirringly, as Eileen Atkins did for Virginia Woolf. Worth is now doing the same for Wharton; she just ended an entrancing off-Broadway run and has upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never met her. I don't know what her voice was like. I am giving feeling to her words. After having so much plot and emotion spoon-fed to them by theater or opera, audiences seem...
...Jews, he chose time, place and method well to produce the most inflammatory effect possible. What better time than a Friday, the Islamic holy day, during Ramadan, the month of fasting and prayer, the same day as the Jewish feast of Purim, which commemorates the killing of the Persian royal minister Haman and his followers before they could carry out a planned massacre of Jews? What better place than the Ibrahim Mosque, where Muslims pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs -- a site thought to contain the graves of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, guaranteed to draw a wall...
...however, Cruise was full of praise for the Hasty Pudding and enjoyed the royal treatment he got from Harvard for the day. He had dinner at Locke-Ober with the top Pudding officers and spent time talking to students involved in the production. Dean of the Law School Robert Clark gave him a tour of the campus and a certificate in honor of "outstanding contributions to the reputation of Harvard Law School." As Cruise himself so deftly put it, "It is a relief that my lasting contribution to the world of entertainment has nothing to do with the fact that...