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...that spent the past 14 years locked in a vault. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish Garbo, by the author Antoni Gronowicz, a longtime friend, who died five years ago. Withheld while Garbo was alive, it contains reminiscences about her childhood in Sweden and her relationships with mentor Mauritz Stiller, conductor Leopold Stokowski and others. In it, Garbo reflects on the tales that "women chased her more often and more persistently" than men. Another associate, film scholar Raymond Daum, has a book due out late this year...
...born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family, and at first she gave little hint of her unique hold on the camera. In early publicity films she giggles and models dresses or gorges on a cream puff. There is no beauty here, no acting ability. What could Mauritz Stiller, the pioneer Swedish director, have seen in this plump teenager? Maybe the future of movies. He changed her name to Garbo, cast her as the young female lead in his The Story of Gosta Berling (1924), then brought her along to Hollywood. The rest of their story is too trite...
...miracle of cyclosporine comes at a steep price. The drug can cause severe damage to the kidneys as well as allow cancerous tumors to develop. Moreover, cyclosporine costs as much as $6,000 for a year's supply, and patients may need it for life. Still, declares Calvin Stiller, chief of transplantation at University Hospital in London, Ont., "cyclosporine clearly stands out as the most important medical discovery in transplantation. It changed the field...
SEIZE THE DAY (PBS). Robin Williams gave his finest dramatic performance (and Jerry Stiller offered splendid support) in an intense, well-tuned adaptation of Saul Bellow's short novel...
Answering criticism about the temptation to declare death prematurely, Dr. Calvin Stiller, London's transplant-unit chief, insisted Gabriel's case represented "no slippery slope." Gabriel's parents agreed. "We cried, but we cried with joy," Karen remembers. They went out, ordered champagne and "celebrated Gabriel's contribution to this world...