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...classy, dark suit and tie, took the stage to the impassioned cheers of the audience, who recognized this opportunity for the precious one that it was--a chance to hear a legend, aging but still creative as ever, perform in an intimate setting. As Dylan, a Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, launched into his classic, "Maggie's Farm," the thick, biting sound of the band immediately announced to the audience that this concert was not going to be a swan song for an artist past his prime, no nostalgia trip for those wishing to rekindle fond memories...
...film is "inspired by"--and not, a chorus of publicists insists, "a remake of"--Death Takes a Holiday), to talk about his new release, Seven Years in Tibet. Just down the lawn from a Newport-style mansion, we are sitting in the estate's opulent boathouse, itself a minimansion slung over a bay so ludicrously sun-dappled it could double for Golden Pond...
...real mud, real biting ants--they're green here--and enough fake smoke to impress even a young, hot, video-trained director. Fifty-three years old, Malick this day cuts a modestly dashing, mildly eccentric figure in work shirt, blue jeans, big black rubber boots, a wide-brimmed hat slung over his back Zorro-style and a surgical mask strapped Michael Jackson-style across his nose and mouth (the smoke, a producer says, is irritating a Malickian sinus condition...
...stop at the corner of Linden and Mt. Auburn to peer into the first-floor window of Claverly Hall--straight to the heart of resident Stephanie M. Mayer '97-'99--the mantle of field hockey photos, a crew erg exercise machine parked in a corner and umbro shorts slung lazily across Mayer's open futon would clue you in right away...
Kline has contemplated his fair share of Yoricks. Inside the green canvas bag slung over his shoulder--along with a pack of Marlboro Lights and two recently bought pairs of wire-rim reading glasses--is a copy of Hamlet, a play he has carried with him almost constantly since he moved to New York a quarter-century ago. It is hardly as though he needs to read Hamlet again; he can recite the role from memory and has no current plans to perform the lead, having already done so twice in the past 12 years to warm reviews...