VISIONE/ERNIE BARNES
Fluidity of Motion
BY NELL STUNDELL
Whether admired as a fierce competitor on the football field or for his keen ability to paint dazzling images of the human form, Ernie Barnes has always captivated the public with his extraordinary talent.

VALENTINE/HISTORY
A Brief History
BY VICTOR M. PARACHIN
A 21-year-old woman from Australia had been touring the United States for two months when, on January 27th, she met a man in San Francisco. “We immediately fell head over heels for each other.”

VERVE/LIVES
Bert and Paul/Paul and Bert
BY HENRY EDWARDS
Can you define your life in a single sentence?
If you happen to be Paul Schindler, the answer is yes. On his passionately political blog, Schindler City (paulschindler.blogspot.com), he describes himself as “the editor of Gay City News, the weekly LGBT newspaper in New York City,” adding that he “lives in Brooklyn with [his] husband, Bert Vaccari, and two Basenji hound dogs, Roxie and Jet.”

VIVACIOUS/COUPLE
Geoffrey Holder & Carmen de Lavallade
BY KAREN KRAMER
For more than 50 years, Geoffrey Holder and his wife, Carmen de Lavallade, have shared a life filled with theater, dance, art, travel, and a true meeting of the minds.

VIVID/LIVES
Tepper-Marlins
BY DAVID GIBBONS
For a big-time New York City power couple, Alice and John Tepper Marlin seem suspiciously easy-going, considerate, and friendly. It’s a little hard to reconcile, until you glimpse them puttering around their kitchen and dining room early one weekday morning, politely offering their guest tea or coffee—with or without the cream—and a choice of bran muffin or toast with butter and jelly.

VITAL/DUO
4-Handed Piano for Life
BY JERRY TALLMER
No, no, Misha Dichter didn’t look at Cipa Glazman once upon a time and say: “We can make beautiful music together,” nor did they say: “The family that plays together stays together,” but they’ve been doing both together for 40 years now as Misha and Cipa Dichter, concert pianists, husband and wife.

VIVA/PROFILE
Fred Ebb
BY JERRY TALLMER
When Harold Prince first started thinking, in the early 1960s, about turning the Sally Bowles story into a Broadway musical, his approach to it was off the beaten track.

VENTURE/PHOTOGRAPHY
Shutterbugs of B’way
By SCOTT HARRAH
They may not be household names, but anyone who has followed theater in the Northeast over the past three decades has probably seen their photos of current and classic shows on theater Web sites, and in magazines and newspapers (like page 19 of this one). Joan Marcus and Carol Rosegg are, without question, the leading theater photographers both on and off Broadway.