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KURT
VONNEGUT hospitalized for smoke inhalation after a fire
in his Manhattan home. Boston
Herald (AP) 01/31/00
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TAKING
STOCK: Author Carol Shields puts aside her struggles with
cancer as she publishes a new collection of stories and finishes
her biography of Jane Austen. National
Post 01/31/00
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SHE
WAS BRITAIN'S GREATEST AGENT, responsible
for nurturing the careers of some of the UK's best playwrights
until she died in 1993. Now one of Margaret Ramsay's stable
- Alan Plater - has put her onstage in a play that gets inside
the head of an agent. London
Telegraph 01/28/00
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JULIE
TAYMOR takes on Shakespeare's
most violent play in her first major movie. Boston
Globe 01/16/00
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SORRY,
IT'S STILL MR. MICK: Mick Jagger was to have been knighted
New Year's Day but Tony Blair nixed the idea. London
Sunday Times 01/16/00
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LIFE
AFTER DIVA: "The big roles are
behind me. It's a lot of sitting in hotels. I decided I don't
need this anymore," says Marilyn Horne, who said goodbye
to opera in 1996 and to classical recitals in 1999." Los
Angeles Times 01/14/00
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WILL
SHE REMEMBER US WHEN? Teenage singing
sensation Charlotte Church was one of Britain's most talked-about,
highest-paid stars (earning about £6 million) in 1999. Now she's
abruptly fired her manager, the one who discovered her and helped
make her a star. Legal action commences. BBC
01/13/00
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NOVELIST
ARUNDHATI ROY is arrested, then released after leading 500
demonstrators protesting the building of a dam in the central
Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. BBC
01/12/00
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OF
GODS AND MONSTERS: Pierre Boulez - champion of contemporary
music and renowned conductor. A hard-liner on matters musical,
in person he's one of the nicest guys in music. A sitdown chat.
London
Sunday Times 01/09/00
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PAVAROTTI
CONCEDES TO THE TAXMAN: Will pay £1.6 million in back taxes
to Italian government. Tax bill figured prominently in his divorce
proceedings. BBC
01/05/00
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BETWEEN
HIGH ART AND HIGH SOCIETY: John Richardson, ex-Christie's
man and best known for his biography of Picasso, can claim friendship
with some of the century's foremost artists - Picasso, Braque,
Fernand Leger, Francis Bacon, Warhol, Freud, Ellsworth Kelly
- and a considerable portion of the bold-face population of
Page Six of the New York Post. Boston
Globe 01/04/00
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A
PAIN IN THE... He stabbed Christa Ludwig, slugged Roberta
Knie and flung Carol Vaness across the stage. Jon Vickers was
a great tenor, but truly "one of the most obnoxious characters
in the annals of 20th-century opera" claims a new biography.
National
Post 01/04/00
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ENCOUNTERING
GRAHAM GREENE: Fascinating, infuriating
interactions with an erratic Greene near the end of his life.
London Observer 01/02/00
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STRAVINSKY
RECONSIDERED: New biography of the
composer attempts to set the record straight. Philadelphia
Inquirer 01/02/00
