The actor and director (Gandhi), now 85, injured his head in a fall earlier this week. He was reportedly in a coma afterwards, but has regained consciousness and is in stable condition.
Tag: 12.21.08
Deaf Woman Calls Playing Piano ‘An Addiction’
36-year-old chemistry student Jingjing Pan has been deaf since the age of 1. (She can hear very loud sounds with a hearing aid.) Since she came to the Rochester Institute of Technology, several years of music therapy using the Orff method have helped effect a major improvement in her studies as well as giving her an outlet for self-expression.
Olga Lepeshinskaya, ‘Stalin’s Favorite Ballerina,’ 92
A star of the Bolshoi Ballet for 30 years (1933-63), Lepeshinskaya won the Stalin Prize four times and said that the Soviet leader had once called her “dragonfly.”
25 Years Of Diversions (In Pictures)
A photographic history of Diversions, the flagship contemporary dance company of Wales for the past quarter-century.