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...Washington, D.C., the following week, tells L.B.J.'s life from his halcyon days in Texas to the years after his turbulent presidency. Klugman admits he developed an "intense interest" in the politician by reading twelve L.B.J. biographies, but stops short of endorsing his political style: "He was no saint. I don't believe the end justifies the means...
After the Saint's Jo Ann Campbell was whistled for a hook at 14:49 the Crimson power play sprung into action. Defenseman Sue Newell, filling in for Landry on right wing for the man-up unit, fed left blue-liner Megan Berthold, who fired the puck on net En route, center Kathy Carroll tipped the biscuit past Clements and into the twines...
...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...
...work about the danger of starmaking in Western society." He has literally cast Seberg as a modern Joan of Arc. He has staged Seberg's involvement with the Black Panthers as a khaki chorus line brandishing rifles to a rhythm-and-blues beat. The show climaxes with Saint Jean burning at the stake for her ideals, torch courtesy of the FBI. Jean Seberg opened this month with a couple of champions and more detractors among the London critics. The most telling slur has come from Hall's alma mater, the R.S.C., whose own musical, the satirical pantomime Poppy...
Despite the successful premiere, Saint François is too long and too difficult for most opera houses to undertake, and the title role is such an awesome challenge that it is hard to imagine any baritone learning it on speculation. Messiaen's uncompromising aesthetic also places great demands on the listener. But if, as Mark Twain supposedly said, Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds, Messiaen's opera is not as formidable as it seems. Saint François d'Assose is a rare spiritual testament and deserves a wider hearing, perhaps...