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...producers of "Huis Clos" intend to follow in this tradition. "We want to try to keep this going," said Joshua S. Kurtzberg '87, who plays the valet. "We've progressed into a really fine acting troupe...
Knowles brings a solid and rich baritone to the part of Figaro, the mischievous valet who fears for his fiancee's faithfulness and suspects his master, the Count, of designs upon her. The finance, Susanna--sung by Eileen McNamara--complements him perfectly with a soaring soprano. In counterpoint to their stratagems and quarrels, the Count Almaviva (Mitchell C. Warren) and his wife (Elizabeth Walsh) accuse each other of infidelities, trap each other into admissions, and argue endlessly over the fate of the pageboy Cherubino, who adores the Countess...
...Moore's first megasuccess in film, Bo Derek did a little of both, accompanied by the hard-breathing beat of Ravel's Boléro. In Arthur, an even bigger hit, duties were shared by Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud, who played his long-suffering valet. There have been a couple of flops along the way, notably the ghoulish Six Weeks, whose bad reviews have left the star angry and bewildered...
Political Valet: When Konstantin Chernenko, 71, won East Germany's highest honor in 1979 (the Order of Karl Marx), Party Chief Erich Honecker described him as Brezhnev's "closest comrade-in-arms." Others have had less kind things to say of the stocky, silver-haired bureaucrat, labeling him Brezhnev's "briefcase carrier." "page turner" and "political valet." No one else on the Politburo owed his position so completely to Brezhnev...
...Rome easy. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, did not like to reveal House travel plans to anyone. Manning helped devise a White House spy network that would give him tips about what L.B.J. was up to. A report from the President's valet that Johnson had asked for a tan suit suggested a trip to the ranch, and the travel crews prepared accordingly...