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Wood, 43, acted in her first movie when she was four, and though the critical praise was niggardly, she always had work. Brainstorm was her 46th movie, and her role required only three more days of filming. On a weekend hiatus, Wood, Husband Robert Wagner (star of TV's Hart to Hart) and her leading man-sallow and rangy Christopher Walken, 38-headed for the sea. They relaxed aboard the Wagners' 60-ft. yacht Splendour, moored in a cove off Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles from the Los Angeles shore. On Saturday afternoon they motored...
Here accounts diverge. Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Thomas Noguchi says that Walken and Wagner, 51, had "nonviolent" but "heated discussions." However, Los Angeles County Homicide Detective Roy Hamilton says...
...Wagner had become worried about his wife and radioed the harbor master. The call was answered instead by Don Whiting, night manager of the restaurant they had left three hours earlier. Whiting launched a search, and at 3:26, the Coast Guard was called in. Soon after dawn, a guardsman spotted Wood's body a mile down current from the yacht and 200 yds. from shore. The empty dinghy, loaded with lifejackets, was not far away, bobbing in the waves...
...some respects, Henze's life mirrors that of another German composer, Richard Wagner. Like Wagner, Henze is a political activist; he sheltered Rebel Rudi Dutschke during the European student uprisings in the late '60s, just as Wagner had actively supported the Dresden uprising of 1849. And like Wagner, Henze is willing to compromise on political principle to have his music played: Wagner was a polemical anti-Semite who still chose Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of Parsifal, while Henze is a dedicated Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both...
...Meistersinger. It is unique among Wagner's theatrical works in that none of the characters gets mixed up with magic or takes drugs...