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Fuentes's work has also been heavily influenced by motion pictures. A movie trivia expert and a close friend of the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, his most recent play. Orchids in the Moonlight, tells the story of two aging Mexican movie actresses as they struggle to come to terms with their fading stardom...
...bits of adoring trivia the ART press office has tossed out concerning guest director Miller, the most illuminating may be that he owns upward of 15,000 art postcards. The British director, known for his scrupulous historical presentations, credits this obsession in the program notes for his instincts concerning "an armature of things which are quite clearly to be seen in 18th-century paintings--the way gentlemen stood with their toes turned out, the way people's hands--rested lightly on the bosom." Reportedly, he worked unusually long and hard with his troupe to supply the stances, the facial expressions...
...only by the overeducated few. This week's special called The I Love TV Test (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) tests a knowledge of television history so superficial that even the most desultory viewer should score at least a B-plus. It is a multiple-choice TV trivia quiz that is merely trivial. Sample question: What was Lucille Ball's baby's name? 1) Little Desi, 2) Little Lucy, 3) Little...
DIED. Norbert Pearlroth, 89, researcher who, believe it or not, from 1923 to 1975 was the sole discoverer and documentor of all the obscure and fascinating trivia that made up the syndicated comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not; of heart and kidney diseases; in New York City. Hired by Strip Creator and Illustrator Robert Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters...
...catamaran emblazoned with the Schlitz brand name cruises by, followed by a fleet of sailboards that extol SALEM SPIRIT. At one of the 380 or so hotels that line the 23 miles of beach, John Bradley, 22, a recent Cornell graduate, is conducting poolside tug-of-war and trivia contests sponsored by Camel cigarettes while half a dozen pretty assistants distribute T shirts, hats and other souvenirs...