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What all these women had are C-sections. Not the emergency caesareans that have been performed for hundreds of years to rescue babies from women in medical crisis. (Legend has it that Julius Caesar was born this way.) Rather, they had an increasingly popular modern-day variation: planned, scheduled operations for all sorts of less-than-critical reasons. One young college student arranged her baby's birth to avoid conflict with her final exams. Another woman was convinced a C-section would ensure that her child's head had a nice round shape. Others are terrified of labor pains...
...wound up concentrating in English and picking up theater for the first time. (His official biography points out that he studied at Harvard at the same time as Natalie Portman ’03, as well as listing credits in student productions of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Ba’al, Galileo, and readings of his own work.) During college, Sandvoss acquired an agent in New York and did some commercials while an undergrad. By graduation, he’d openly acknowledged his desire to act for a living, and eventually switched allegiances to Los Angeles...
...DIED. JULIUS DIXON, 90, rock-'n'-roll songwriter; in New York City. In 1955 Dixon scored his first hit single with Dim, Dim the Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere). He penned songs for several bands but remains best known for the Chordettes' buoyant 1958 rendition of Lollipop...
...series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very little humor and seems quite unaware of anything except the development of his own evident talents." His assessment of Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, whom he directed...
...DIED. JULIUS SCHWARTZ, 88, an early promoter of the science-fiction genre, who went on to revive the American comic-book industry after World War II; in Mineola, N.Y. As a science-fiction literary agent in the 1940s, he sold an unknown Ray Bradbury's first stories. Later, as an editor at DC Comics, he revived such superheroes as the Flash and Green Lantern, and in the 1970s updated Superman, giving his alter ego, Clark Kent, a new job--as a TV reporter...