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KEVIN KLINE had no trouble getting COLE PORTER under his skin for this summer's De-Lovely, a movie musical about the master tunesmith's complex relationship with his wife, muse and taskmistress, LINDA LEE PORTER, played by ASHLEY JUDD. Kline--who has experience with sexually ambiguous characters from 1997's In & Out--portrays the composer as a "lover of wine, men and song," he says. He sang 95% of his tunes in the film live rather than lip-synching over a score. "These songs are part of our musical collective unconscious," Kline says. "Or our Muzakal unconscious; we hear...
...long as Wachner kept growing the brands, her flaws were easy to overlook. Her reputation as a taskmistress who demanded perfection from her employees--and torched them if she didn't get it--is legendary. Her friends say it's exaggerated. "I know she's a loyal and caring person. She asks nothing of her people that she doesn't ask of herself," says Richard Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange...
...strict taskmistress, Edith Efron passed only five of her 20 students, flunked all but one of the professional newsmen. Last week the Haitian National Assembly was considering a permanent department of journalism at the University of Haiti. Probable chairman: Edith Efron...
...morning in 1895 Secretary Ponsonby also collapsed (of overwork), died ten months later. "Dear kind Sir Henry," his Royal Taskmistress wrote, "so universally beloved ... so kind and so fair and just...
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