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...story of Anna Leonowens, an English governess who waged a war of wills with the King of Siam, but to underline the convulsive drama at the story's core. As played by Donna Murphy (steely presence, gorgeous voice) and Lou Diamond Phillips (who eventually shrugs off the shroud of Yul Brynner), Anna and the King are each emotionally isolated--she as a widow and a foreigner, he as a man bred to a belief in his own infallibility. When they finally, lightly touch in the majestic Shall We Dance? polka, it has the thrilling impact of two worlds colliding...
...actually the fourth human born from an egg matured outside the ovary. In 1991, Dr. Kwang Yul Cha and his colleagues at the Cha Woman's Hospital in Seoul removed the ovaries of a woman with fibroid tumors and isolated immature eggs, which were then ripened and fertilized in the lab. They transferred the embryos to a surrogate mother, who produced triplets. Since then Cha has not repeated his success...
...verge of a breakthrough in a procedure doctors have been dreaming about for some time: the freezing and storage of unfertilized eggs. Sperm and embryos are regularly frozen for later use, but not eggs, which quickly lose their viability when manipulated outside the body. But Dr. Kwang Yul Cha, an endocrinologist at Cha Women's Hospital in Seoul, reports that his team has produced two pregnancies from eggs matured not in an ovary but in a Petri dish -- a major step in the eventual perfection of egg freezing. Many scientists expect that the procedure will be available within the next...
...aging boomer generation, the shiny pate is becoming acceptable, even noble. Cheers' Ted Danson has gone public with a hint of skin gleaming through his thinning strands. Television luminaries Charles Kuralt and Joe Garagiola are boldly bald, so who knows? Maybe it will soon be time again for the Yul Brynner look...
CHESS (RCA Victor). You missed the show, now buy the record: not a rock musical at all, but the most eclectic score of the '80s and the hottest night in Bangkok since Yul Brynner met Deborah Kerr...