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WORLD PREMIERE ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Yet an- other network-made movie, The Borgia Stick, starring Don Murray as a bank executive who becomes a front man for a crime syndicate that thoughtfully provides him with a front wife-Inger Stevens. Sunday, February...
...theater until a few minutes before curtain time. Then, "before 1 have time to think about it-pfft! I jump right in there." Last April, seemingly from out of nowhere, she jumped right in as a substitute to sing the lead in the American Opera Society's Lucrezia Borgia and pfft! She caused a sensation the likes of which Manhattan opera lovers have not witnessed since the arrival of Joan Sutherland four years...
Record companies are understandably annoyed. This spring, for example, after Spanish Soprano Monserrat Caballe made her widely acclaimed U.S. debut in Lucrezia Borgia, RCA Victor quickly signed her to make a recording of the opera. But not quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company...
LADY WU, by Lin Yutang. From the remote era of 7th century Imperial China, Author Yutang has recalled an empress who was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one fiery, demonic woman. Clawing her way from obscurity to power, she killed wantonly and hideously; finally on the throne, she became a model ruler...
Beastly Nature. If the Devil is a woman, her name is undoubtedly Lady Wu. She was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one, and from A.D. 655 to 704, first as Empress and later as "female Emperor," she subjected China to a reign of unprecedented terror. In this lightly fictionalized and gruesomely readable account of her career, Lin Yutang dispassionately describes the nature of the beast and the events of an era that still stands as history's most horrible experience of petticoat government...