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...philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...
...romantic notions. Director Bliss Hebert wittily stages the action with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind of production that Schoenberg's reputation could use more of. Even the sort of people who only played tennis with him could warm...
...Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security numbers. Said Iowa Refugee Service Center Director Colleen Shearer: "Don't people spend their whole lives wanting to show love? This is a rare opportunity. People don't often get a chance to create a microcosm of what the world might...
Directed by Albert Brooks Screenplay by Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson and Harry Shearer...
...festival's show-stopper is some thing called a sheep-to-shawl race. Teams consisting of a shearer, four spinners and a weaver compete in converting the hair of an unshorn sheep into a woolen shawl, 24 by 60 inches, in less than three hours...