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Theater director Max Stafford-Clark is no stranger to controversy. An ardent promoter of new writing through his Out Of Joint company, he brought to the stage such succès de scandale as Mark Ravenhill's 1996 hit about sex and consumerism, Shopping and F______. Even he, though, may have been taken aback by the furor that has attended his latest project: Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, a co-production between Out Of Joint, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and London's Royal National Theatre...
...always felt a pull to the "agrarian tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with the kind of icons that normally grace the biceps of a Hell's Angel. Thus converted to art, the pigs avoided the slaughterhouse; animal rights activists were nevertheless not amused...
...Weight of History. The last new opera to enter the standard repertory was Puccini's Turandot in 1926. Certain later operas have enjoyed a succès d'estime, and some (like Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes) are even produced fairly often; but in general, the repertory of the past half-century has been a closed shop. Thus the Met has the Sisyphean task of producing and reproducing the same roster of familiar works. When the Met was young, many of today's warhorses were new; but now opera is in danger of becoming a dead...
...feet set upon the rungs to Eastern establishment success: St. Albans School in Washington; Harvard, class of '62; Harvard Law School. But somewhere along the way a muse appeared and made off with Casey's torts and breaches. He has been a writer ever since. And a succès, of some esteem, since his first novel, An American Romance, came out two years...
...Tango went to his head. He has become an egomaniac, a very sick man." Bertolucci, biting his knuckles in his Rome apartment, charged Grimaldi with censorship and, half seriously, with putting "a kind of curse on me-a macumba." In Hollywood a top film executive suggested that after the succès de scandale of Last Tango, the big studios probably invested in Bertolucci without scrutinizing his plans. (In addition to Paramount's U.S. investment, United Artists and 20th Century Fox have bought various foreign rights.) "It's a mess," said the executive, "in which blame...