New York's Fashion Week produced thousands of photos from dozens of designers showing everything from glamorous evening gowns to zany ensembles. What to buy for spring? Scout out these trends that crossed catwalks for pointers
By Suzanne S. Brown
1. Over the rainbow

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Seth Rogen is box office gold thanks to two summer hits: 'Knocked Up' and 'Superbad,' the script

he wrote as an antidote to 'Beverly Hills 90210'
By John Patterson
The king of the summer box office arrives unaccompanied and draws no crowd as he settles into a booth in a West Hollywood coffee shop. Unlike many past holders of his title, he's not swooningly handsome, blue-eyed or flaxen-haired. He's about 180cm tall, big and burly, with red, slightly frizzy hair, big glasses and a very infectious, dirty gurgle of a laugh, which will be heard often over the next hour or so, along with a blizzard of profanity and one-liners.

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SS officer Karl Hocker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, left behind a photo album, donated to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which offers a look at the lives of Auschwitz's senior SS officers and their staff living near the horrific reality of the notorious death camp where 1.1 million died

By NEIL A. LEWIS
Last December, Rebecca Erbelding, a young archivist at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, opened a letter from a former US Army intelligence officer who said he wanted to donate photographs of Auschwitz he had found more than 60 years ago in Germany.

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By CAROL VOGEL
By CAROL VOGEL

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BRADLEY WINTERTON
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has long lacked a first-class DVD version. The Metropolitan Opera's offering with Ben Heppner and Jane Eaglen and an abstract staging by Dieter Dorn [reviewed Taipei Times Feb. 1, 2004] pleased few, and the old 1973 set with John Vickers and Birgit Nilsson apparently has poor image and sound quality. The strongest rendering up to now was probably from the National Theater Munich, with Waltraud Meier as Isolde and directed (in highly original fashion) by Peter Konwitschny. But a famous Bayreuth version directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle dating from 1983 has just appeared on DVD from Deutsche Grammophon. So, how do these two seeming front-runners compare?

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