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...Zola's tragic story has been updated to post-World War II New Orleans, but the plot's basic outline has been changed little. And that's part of the hurdle the musical faces. This is a show in which the two leads (Craig Bierko and Kate Levering) wind up destroying each other; another character spends the entire second act paralyzed by a stroke; and yet another doesn't come to life until after he's dead. That "Thou Shalt Not" doesn't become a complete downer is a tribute largely to the flavorful music of Harry Connick...
...current miracle maker, director-choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for staging Brooks' The Producers. It's not hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation of Therese Raquin, Emile Zola's novel of adultery and murder, transplanted from 19th century Paris to post-World War II New Orleans, the musician's hometown. The lure for Stroman? Well, it's hard to resist a chance to achieve a theatrical grand slam: four (count 'em) hits on Broadway running simultaneously. (Along with The Producers, the others are her dance musical Contact and the revival...
Harvard was home to Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most influential post-World War II philosophers, who died last year. During the three decades after the war, Leiter said, Quine's prominence was essential to Harvard's dominance of the field...
DIED. LOWELL PERRY, 68, star football player at the University of Michigan; first post-World War II black assistant NFL coach and chairman of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission in the Ford Administration; of cancer; in Southfield, Mich. He was also the NFL's first black broadcaster and one of the first blacks to head a major auto plant--for Chrysler...
...question to ponder over the post-World Series winter: How was it that Joe DiMaggio--a high school dropout whose favorite reading material was Superman comics, a man who was a lousy father, an unfaithful husband and a wife beater, a guy who was reluctant to enlist in World War II, someone who never did a meaningful day's work in the last 47 years of his life, who was monumentally vain and cheap and mistrustful--became a national hero...