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Cheers too struggled when it first went on the air in 1982: in its debut season it ranked dead last out of 75 prime-time shows. Yet, encouraged by critical acclaim and a slew of Emmys, NBC stuck with it. The show would probably still be going strong if it weren't for star Ted Danson's decision to leave at the end of this season. "Our thinking was, we rolled the dice twice, when we replaced Nick Colasanto ((with Woody Harrelson)) and Shelley Long ((with Kirstie Alley)), and we won," says James Burrows, who created the show with Glen...
...star power does not ensure triumph -- this season's major musical disappointment, The Goodbye Girl, was shaped by comparably gilded names -- but Kiss is a proven commodity. The same production, with the same cast, opened in London six months ago to deserved acclaim. Some reviewers were uncomfortable with the subject matter, which includes torture, threats of anal rape, and a disquieting scene in which one man washes the other after a bout of poison- induced diarrhea. Admits Prince: "We couldn't have gotten this project financed a decade...
...years now, the Kronos Quartet (David Harrington and John Sherba, violins: Hank Dutt, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello) has been exclusively playing string quartet music of the 20th century, to every increasing public acclaim. The group now gives upwards of 100 concerts per year and has 12 recordings to its credit, all made since...
...Bush and began squeezing as if he were trying to wring out a wet dishrag. The gesture was an appropriate one: increasingly beleaguered by a devilish array of domestic problems, the Russian President must twist every drop of prestige he can from his foreign triumphs. Yet not even the acclaim of history's most extensive cutback in nuclear missiles could compensate for an economy tailspinning into chaos. According to the latest figures, Russian productivity plummeted 24% in the past year even as prices surged...
Walcott is perhaps the most celebrated of Caribbean writers currently reaping international acclaim. This group includes other luminaries such as V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid. They all are, in part, products of a colonial experience...