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...leader in the profession of full-time image makers, Crisp has paid the dues required to hone his distinctive style. He has made frequent television talk show appearances; has written articles for The New York Times and Esquire; and has penned an acclaimed autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant, and its sequel How to Become a Virgin...
...bleakest of Swedes did, in fact, think of women as "whores," including his three wives. In brilliant but vitriolic plays like Miss Julie (an aristocrat lusts after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri...
...West Germans, the unanswered question was why Tiedge betrayed his country. By all accounts he was a diligent civil servant. He had served the Cologne-based spy-catching unit, formally called the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, for 19 years, the last four of them as head of the department dealing with East German spies. But after his wife died, his life began to go to pieces...
...tribute to a man who has retained his friends if not his reputation. Dozens of supporters from the military, corporate and political elite pleaded for leniency. "I don't know of another man living in this country who has been as dedicated, patriotic and such a willing and constant servant to our Government and our Constitution," Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona said in a letter. "I have always found him to be honest and forthright," wrote former President Gerald Ford...
Based on Voltaire's eponymous novel, Candide follows the loss of innocence of four young characters, who hail from the German town of Westphalia. This quarter features the tantalizing servant girl Paquette (Leslie Blumenthal), and Candide (Mark Meredith), the poor bastard cousin of both the narcissistic Maximilion (David Chase) and of the beautiful Cunegonde (Nan Hughes). All four are under the tutelage of the wise, omnipresent, and somewhat jaded Pangloss played superbly by Jon Tolin Pangloss also serves as the show's magnificent narrator--Voltaire in a similar vein to Salieri's narration in the stage production of Amadeus. From...