Word: wunderkind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky's long, semipolemical play Summerfolk by adding Gershwin songs. After last week's opening of the hybrid, the answer is, alas, all too apparent: Gorky and Gershwin have nothing in common except Sellars himself...
...Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., is writing a journal on this experience for high school credit. Of the hard road, he says, "It's tough living outside Mommy's arms. I thought I'd be taking biology now." Olczyk and Jensen are the wings of Wunderkind LaFontaine, who turns 19 three days after the closing ceremonies. A virus has restrained his performance...
...videotape was devastating. There is John Z. De Lorean, the sleek, charming onetime Wunderkind of General Motors, meeting with several purported cocaine traffickers in a tacky Los Angeles hotel room. De Lorean appears thrilled as one of the "dealers" drags a suitcase containing 55 Ibs. of cocaine into the room and opens it on a table. "It's better than gold," exclaims De Lorean after fingering the packets of snow-white powder. "Gold weighs more than that, for God's sake." Later he raises a champagne glass in a toast: "This is to a lot of success...
...returned to New York and built the company's lucrative oil-trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established his own firm with headquarters in Zug, an Alpine town 14 miles south of the financial center of Zurich...
DIED. Glenn Gould, 50, eccentric, commanding piano virtuoso celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, and one of the first classical performers to concentrate on the LP recording as an art form; of a stroke; in Toronto. A Canadian-born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that...