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...from all appearances, he is. Until the alimony suit is resolved, Seema Boesky has been ordered by the New York matrimonial court to pay her former husband $15,000 a month. While he receives this stipend, he also has the use of the $2.3 million home in La Jolla, California, that Seema bought in better times for him to use as a postprison retreat. Seema has already tried to seize that house, putting it on the market when Boesky filed his alimony suit, but Ivan's lawyers successfully persuaded the judge to allow him to stay. And though a victory...
What's onstage, however, is anything but stuffy. In a tryout last July at California's La Jolla Playhouse, the first act moved like a rocket, while the second act sputtered. So composer-lyricist Pete Townshend and director Des McAnuff rewrote the libretto again, added new music and clarified -- purists would say changed -- the underlying message. Now the whole production hurtles forward with visual excitement and emotional clout worthy of the score...
...normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step recovery program. Michael Cerveris, saintly and poetic as Tommy in La Jolla, now seethes with energy. Of a solid supporting cast, the most remarkable is Buddy Smith as Tommy at age 10, his body endlessly pliable, his unresponding features hauntingly tinged with fear...
...also editing my film Life with Mikey, starring Michael J. Fox and populated with a lot of theater actors, and working on a play at La Jolla based on Cool Million starring Doogie Howser. It's a Horatio Alger story...but he gets dismembered...
Researchers have similar dreams of manipulating stickiness in more commonplace ailments, including cancer. "Cellular-adhesion research isn't going to cure cancer, but it might stop metastasis," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Richard Hynes. At the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation in California, genetic scientists have succeeded in inserting a CAM gene inside a tumor cell. Once the cell starts manufacturing patches of biological Velcro, it is essentially "glued in place. It becomes incapable of metastasizing," says Erkki Ruoslahti, president of the foundation. A second approach to controlling cancer is known as "walking on ice." Here the goal...