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Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
...chandelier, escapes from menacing samurai and dresses up as a gorilla-all in the line of duty. He plays a professional stunt man in the French film L 'Animal and performs all his feats himself. Co-Star Raquel Welch, 36, portrays his daredevil partner, but relied on a stand-in stunt woman. Awed by Belmondo, Welch says: "He's the embodiment of all the best qualities of the French male...
...Some Came Running (1957), was not only longer than War and Peace but better. In fact, he said, it was "the greatest novel we've had in America." The critics vehemently disagreed and Jones went off to live in Paris. He and his blonde wife Gloria (once a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) were to spend 16 years abroad. Throughout, Jones kept doggedly writing, but never again did he achieve the acclaim of Eternity...
...there was no coercion, but the elaborate system of "disincentives" amounted to the same thing. Government employees had to produce two or more candidates for sterilization. For such civil servants, or for anybody who was being pressured into submitting to sterilization himself, it was usually possible to hire a stand-in for about 200 rupees ($22). For those not in government service, all sorts of privileges-such as licenses for guns, shops, ration cards-were denied unless the applicant could produce a sterilization certificate...
...hours, and considerably trimmed from the Russian version - one is put longingly in mind of Forbidden Planet. A lightheaded piece of American scifi, Forbidden Planet (1956) was a genial reworking of The Tempest in which some American astronauts were trapped on a distant planet. There a wizard, a stand-in for Prospero, conjured up an unconquerable force field of "monsters from the id." Hearing this, one of the astronauts inquired without hesitation, "What's the id?" The people who made Solaris may be beyond such inspired silliness, but pomposity is no fair substitute...