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...show opens with two strong, bright numbers. The performers have an energy that audience cannot help but catch. Pier Carlo Talenti, Linda Doctoroff and Greg Schaeffer are obviously having a lot of fun with the first number, "Me and My Town." Doctoroff is sultry as she belts outs the lyrics and engages the audience by bantering with the other performers. Talenti and Schaeffer remain onstage ending the number with an up-tempo duet. Jenny Giering follows them, singing "The Glamorous Life...
Anyone able to take particle physics beyond the Standard Model will automatically win prizes, prestige and added power in the profession. The quest has attracted some of the most driven personalities in science. The leaders, including Ting, CERN director Carlo Rubbia and Stanford's Burton Richter, are known for their relentless ambition, feisty competitiveness and monumental egos. All have already won Nobel Prizes, but that seems only to have increased their desire for greater achievements. In the rush to get results, they push their staffs mercilessly and are furious -- at least in private -- whenever they come in second...
...Europe she has gained a formidable backstage reputation for demanding the optimum in production and rehearsal time and, if not satisfied, canceling. "She's hardly ever in agreement with any director," says Niccolo Parente, artistic director of the San Carlo opera house in Naples, who, nevertheless, is an admirer. "She is fanatical," he adds, "but is often right." Says Anderson: "They say that singers have resonance where other mortals have brains. But I do have a brain, and I can make a decision based on something more than notes." Many of her decisions to walk out of productions were based...
...promised to a museum -- as Irises had been. "At one time," muses Varnedoe, "he might have looked at it and said, 'Well, there's the Porsche I didn't buy.' Now he says to himself, 'That's my children's education for three generations, a villa in Monte Carlo, a duplex on Fifth Avenue and a fleet of Rolls-Royces -- all sitting over my fireplace.' Then the temptation to respond to a dealer who offers $50 million for it is insurmountable. That's the real danger: the pressure on our trustees and close friends. We will get squeezed...
Bruce (Pier Carlo Talenti) has a problem. His relationship with his gay lover, Bob (Andres Irlando), isn't satisfying, so he places a personal ad in the hopes of meeting a nice female companion. Prudence (Patricia Goldman) answers the ad, but becomes a bit disconcerted when Bruce openly admires her breasts, announces that he is bisexual and cries at the first sign of rejection. The initial encounter ends badly, and both rush to their analysts in an effort to find out what went wrong...