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...Washington last week, 1,000 guests filled the Capitol Rotunda to witness the unveiling of a cast bronze bust of King, marking the first time a black American has been so honored in the Capitol. On this week's official holiday, concerts were scheduled at Washington's Kennedy Center, New York's Radio City Music Hall and Atlanta's Civic Center, featuring such performers as Stevie Wonder, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. The highlights were to be aired on national TV and the profits from the shows donated to Atlanta's King Center for Non-violent Social Change...
...Popular Alliance, the main conservative opposition party, urged people to abstain, claiming the referendum was just a political ploy by the Socialists. One prominent voter who ignored the boycott was popular King Juan Carlos, who said he was doing his "civic duty" when he and Queen Sofia cast ballots amid television cameras at a school near their Madrid palace. The King does not vote in municipal and general elections so that he is not seen as taking sides in partisan politics...
...campus production of Macbeth, the director pressed them all to read for roles. The lines, Kline recalls, "meant nothing to me--they might as well have been in Croatian. I just used the deepest voice I could and tried to sound Shakespearean." That was enough to get him cast as a "bleeding sergeant" who speaks 30 lines of verse, collapses and is carried offstage in Act I--"to wait two and a half hours for the curtain call...
Kline can be volatile: the cast of Pirates saw him punch huge holes in his dressing-room walls out of frustration with a performance. Yet his colleagues speak with deep affection. Says Glenn Close, a co-star in The Big Chill: "He was a worrier, unbelievably insecure. We would always tease him about how much he would look in the mirror at himself. He said that he thought his nose looked like a potato and that he had no upper...
Ironically, of the large cast, Captain Dreyfus is the least compelling. Framed by traitorous colleagues, he was at first incredulous, then hysterical and finally benumbed. His family and friends tirelessly protested his innocence, joined after two years by Emile Zola, the most famous and reviled writer of his time. The analyst of motives thundered what others had only whispered: the dominant powers of France, threatened by Germany, narcotized by visions of a glorious and irretrievable past, regarded Jews as dual threats. In one view, they were radicals seeking to undo the state. When that label did not adhere, they were...