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...Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...
Buried Child, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a tragic, warped American family, is a disturbing text, even in this newly revised form. And Marcus Stern's production, full of bizarre, haunting sounds and images, is fantastic theater. However, it isn't entirely clear that Stern's production and Shepherd's text have all that much to do with one another...
...have been Shepard's cruel writing, but Ben Evett doesn't seem to know exactly who he is or why he is on stage. He has a tendency to over- or under-act, and at the wrong times. Jeremy Geidt mumbles too many of his lines, but he's playing an old, near-crazy curmudgeon, so he can be forgiven. Both Evett and Geidt fail to convey and deep understanding of their characters, and come across as flat figures on the stage...
Smith adroitly deflected attention from herself to others such as Mapplethorpe and Shepard. She read one of Kerouac's poems and credited 10,000 Maniacs with "Because the Night," a song she wrote with Bruce Springsteen. Janet Hamill, Smith's good friend and 'mentor' opened the reading with her own sensual descriptions of art and landscapes...
...Whitacre made a fateful decision. "I did not feel comfortable lying to the FBI," Whitacre said. Instead, he blurted the truth to special agent Brian Shepard, "a very trustworthy guy" who ran the Decatur office. Whitacre soon agreed to carry a recorder hooked to his inside coat pocket while working in the office and to tote a briefcase rigged with a taping device to sessions between ADM representatives and those of other companies. He also tipped the FBI to meetings where prices might be discussed with representatives of other companies so the agents could videotape the proceedings. "It's amazing...