December 22, 2016 • Maya Shankar was on her way to being an accomplished concert violinist, but a twist of fate led her to the social sciences instead. (npr.org)
The son of a steel - executive father and concert violinist mother, Ontario native Martin Short attended McMasters University, where he graduated in 1972 with a degree in social work. (rottentomatoes.com)
In the latter, she came back to America to star in writer - director James Toback's wild tale of a midwestern girl who becomes an international supermodel and finds herself caught between a romantically obsessed concert violinist (Rudolph Nureyev) and the Carlos the Jackal - like international terrorist (Harvey Keitel) that the violinist has vowed to destroy. (rogerebert.com)