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...both Victor (the man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act has made him/her the toast of '30s Paris) and Victoria (the down-on-her-luck English opera singer who, desperate for work, agrees to become a woman-impersonating-a-man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act, etc.). The show's writer and director is her husband Blake Edwards, who after a long career in films (the Pink Panther series, as well as Victor/Victoria) has chosen to embark on musical theater...
...thing that came from this march is fear," says Adele Klate, a middle-aged Jew who owns a travel agency in Hollywood. "We're afraid." She was minding the store last Wednesday when a regular customer, a black TV actor in his 30s, came in to pick up a plane ticket to Washington. "Aren't you late for the march?" Klate asked. "I was working," he answered. "Well, Mr. Farrakhan sure has caused enough trouble," said Klate. "Oh, I don't think so," the actor replied. "He said he wants to iron things out, didn't he?" Klate, however...
Edited by Nabokov's son Dmitri, the omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...
...Eight years prior to the action of the novel, Anne Elliot rejected Captain Frederick Went-worth, the only man she ever loved, all because of the well-meaning "persuasion" of her family and her best friend, Lady Russell. As the novel opens we see Anne fading into her unmarriageable 30s, with only herself to blame for her loneliness. When Captain Wentworth unexpectedly returns to her life, there is a sense of desperation in Anne's response; this is her last chance to be happy...
...face "ready-made for a radical's Mount Rushmore." Actor Don Brockett was remembered for his astonishing range--the amiable chef on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood also played a deranged inmate in The Silence of the Lambs. Quinn's favorite obit: soprano Ina Souez, who starred in operas in the '30s and then, after World War II, joined Spike Jones' bizarre musical-comedy troupe, cheerfully warbling under a hat adorned with live pigeons. "Now there's a full life," says Quinn...