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...their adopted child because most of the work on this baby was done in 1947 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the original architect. As power stations go, Bankside was a looker, which is to say that it's a hulking lunker of a building with a tapering chimney that doesn't so much echo the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on the opposite side of the river as flip it the bird. Nevertheless it has a happy squat symmetry, enhanced by groups of narrow windows that stripe nearly the entire height of the building. It also has size, which...
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger, who share credit for the redesign, were smart enough not to mess too much with the building. "Sir Giles Scott created a monument," says Gugger. "We wanted to blur the boundaries of the monument, to turn it into open space." Blur is the right word. It's the gentle transformation of a giant. The most astonishing thing about it may be that a looming, great, scary industrial complex could become something so polite...
...ease within the alternate world of Illyria. Shohet makes us believe that she could be a wonderful Olivia-in a different production-and Jezek, though truly engaging in his scenes with Faiman, ran a little to the whiny side of the Dukedom. Uche Amaechi, playing Olivia's kinsman, Sir Toby, possesses an amazing voice and stage presence, yet seemed wrong for the role of the scheming drunkard. Little can be done with Sir Andrew (Christian Roulleau '01), but Roulleau managed to turn in one of the most traditionally sound performances of the evening...
Gore did try a few jokes. He asked a man in the audience with eight grandchildren to "give me some advice afterwards, sir, I need some help. I'm a rookie." A minute later, he said that his grandson, now 10 months old, has already learned two languages. "I don't understand either of them," he said...
NATURALIZED. ANTHONY HOPKINS, 62, Oscar-winning British actor; as a U.S. citizen; in Los Angeles. Sir Anthony the Yank (LECTER THE DEFECTOR, cried one British headline) will be a dual national...