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...saluting show-biz royalty on opening night as a cavalcade of limos rolled up to the marquee of the Winter Garden, disgorging the likes of Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that were more mixed than...
...recent years, the plight of orphan-disease victims has begun to capture national attention and stir concern. Beginning in 1980, several dramatic hearings of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment raised awareness of the issue with testimony from Marjorie Guthrie, the singer's widow, Actor Jack Klugman, whose TV show Quincy devoted an episode to Tourette's syndrome, and researchers like Van Woert. A study by the committee identified 134 drugs to treat orphan diseases, but found that only 58 were on the market or even under investigation by drug manufacturers. Furthermore, more than two-thirds...
...Festspielhaus is, as usual, in transition. During its early years, it was the physical realization of Wagner's artistic vision: a theater built to his own specifications where his revolutionary music dramas could be given their fullest expression. After Wagner's death in 1883, his widow Cosima carried on the tradition for 25 years, when she was succeeded by their son Siegfried. Bayreuth was re-opened after the war in 1951, and a leaner, more ascetic style developed under Wagner's grandson Wieland. Operating under the twin inspirations of his own adventurous ideas and the straitened German...
...children this trip was taken in the first place. Two are known to be safely out of Lebanon. One is well in Beirut, though in a perilous position. The fourth is probably all right, in hiding with his mother, who will be protected by her people for being the widow of a warrior and hero. The story is done. Along the way, another story told itself; but that is a very old story. Everybody knows about wars...
DIVORCED. David Frost, 43, peripatetic, sometimes abrasive British TV interviewer-producer; and Lynne Frederick, 28, actress and widow of Peter Sellers, who married her old flame. Frost, six months after the actor's death; after 17 months of marriage, no children; in Switzerland...