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...pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...
Before the Pudding party, Chapman toured the Yard, where he noted that Emmanual College in Cambridge, England, had a dormitory room which not only included room for a student and his valet--as do Yard buildings such as Wigglesworth--but also "a special place...
...that have become familiar on the screen as part of movie life. Richard Bone trades a few remarks with an older woman he has half-heartedly laid, and then he's down in the hotel lobby, lighting the obligatory cigarette, striding cockily out the door, refusing to pay the valet who wheels him up his old Healy. We've seen all this before, and it has become so familiar we don't even give it a second thought. They used to apply the term "bigger than life" to the movies, and scenes such as this have that quality, though "different...
...with pool) for Wilshire House. Mrs. Lee Abrams, 46, who moved to the Longford from a San Fernando Valley estate, agrees: ''I hate a house. The plumbing is always going out, the roof needs repair, and the gardeners are always quitting. This makes me feel elegant. The valet will even put away your groceries...
...original text, delicately excising those barbs that are simply too topical to appreciate two centuries later but leaving intact the many strands of Beaumarchais' plot. Figaro moves through its intrigues and mistaken identities in a vast double action to teach both the sluggish-witted Count Almaviva and his valet Figaro the uselessness of scheming the pointlessness of jealousy. When Mozart unleashed his inventive genius on the play, these were the themes he focused on, and his opera manipulates musical and dramatic structures towards that overwhelming moment of absolution when the Count begs his wife for forgiveness...