Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happiest find indoors is George Abbott's first hit, the 1926 Broadway, which invented what have since become the cliches of backstage sagas and gangster melodramas. Pat Patton's staging abounds with campy cabaret numbers, menacing slapstick and chorus-girl goofiness, and centers on a superbly acted struggle for the heroine between a sinuous mobster (Castellanos) and a cheery hoofer (Brian Tyrrell). Broadway celebrates the gutsy traditions and restorative powers of the theater. Some 2,500 miles off Broadway, Ashland does the same, season after season...
Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...
...stock offering, Brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi are prowling for more prey and are determined to build the world's largest agency. Doyle Dane Bernbach turned down a Saatchi offer before deciding to merge with BBDO and Needham; so far, Ted Bates has also ducked Saatchi's advances. Says Abbott Jones, president of the Chicago-based Foote, Cone & Belding agency ($1.9 billion): "It's hard to say where a company like Saatchi, with such deep pockets, will strike next...
...moved to New York City in 1955. He staged a revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and became a friend and protege of Williams', and later of Robert Penn Warren's and William Styron's. Much of his work has been literary adaptation. His stage version of Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir In the Belly of the Beast was taken up last year by theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago...
Other companies, including McDonald's, Abbott Laboratories and CBS, are learning how to be prepared by enlisting the expert advice of public relations firms. In fact, crisis management has become a growth industry. Says Frank Mankiewicz, an executive vice president at Gray & Co., a Washington-based public relations and lobbying firm: "We're focusing on our crisis-management capabilities when talking to potential clients." Some firms have people around the country who can move on a 24-hour basis to handle a corporate crisis. Often, these independent experts offer a much needed objectivity. Says Philip Lesly, president of a Chicago...