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TARTUFFE is the story of what happens when a hypocrite moves in with the family. It is also a very funny satire directed at those who oppose 17th-century absolutism. Orgon, a wealthy and respected Parisian and supporter of Louis XIV, is infatuated by the pretended piety of Tartuffe, whom he has observed sweating blood in church. He welcomes him into his family, embracing him first as a brother, then as an heir when he disowns his skeptical son. Apparently hoping that his association with the pseudo-pious Tartuffe will create for himself a public image of God-fearing moral...
...kept up a brisk, fast-talking pace that is well-suited to the play's 1940s flavor, and the production staff has worked wonders, considering the Ex's limited budget. The set for Brock's "$235-dollar-a-day" hotel suite comes complete with foliage, statuary, and Louis XIV furniture. And the costume crew seems to have had a ball decking out Billie in sequins, feathers, fake fur and silver lame...
...terrible weeks in 1971, Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, must have felt like the young Louis XIV when peasants burst into his Palais Royal bedroom demanding bread. At the gates of Annenberg's 220-acre estate in Palm Springs, Calif, were 15 noisy pickets throwing beer cans into the shrubbery and indulging in a few well-chosen oaths. The greensmen hired to tend Annenberg's 18-hole golf course were demanding a pay hike. Annenberg took them to court for violating his right to privacy. Last week the California appellate court...
...Braque, Chagall and Rouault, and photographs of Malraux's own beloved cats. Once a chain-smoker, he has given up cigarettes and alcohol and looks younger than he has in years. "Did you know," he asked, "that the Mona Lisa hung in the bathrooms of Francois I, Louis XIV and Napoleon?* Francois I, well, that was normal because he bought it from Leonardo. It was not so logical in the case of Louis XIV, because in his reign the great painter was Raphael. And in Napoleon's day, Leonardo was thought of as a second-rate painter...
...form of a globe, dangles in the hallway; the walls are bumpy, like just dried mud plaster, broken by an oil painting of a girl in a red equestrian's uniform astride an auburn thoroughbred in a forest. The living roomis furnished in imitation gold-leafed Louis XIV, with mustard velvet upholstery and matching floor length drapes. There are three six-year-old portraits of the Rath children above the fireplace and a bust of Andrew Carnegie on the mantle; the opposite wall is all mirror. National Geographic, Readers' Digest and Businessweek lie on a coffee table along with Mechanics...