Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama of Garth Drabinsky, the Broadway impresario--with a capital I--responsible for such shows as Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Show Boat, has taken a turn worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. The first-act curtain fell last August, when Drabinsky was suspended from Livent, the Toronto-based company he had founded. There he had pioneered a new business model, creating a company that both owned theaters and developed the shows that filled them in New York City and across North America...
...second act has been a deluge of litigation. Following his ouster, Drabinsky was sued in Canada by Livent's new managers, including Furman and Hollywood honcho Michael Ovitz, who had taken control of the company in June. Then came a criminal indictment in U.S. federal court and fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Drabinsky fiddled with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb...
...classic tale, told and retold through the ages: the hero reaches for greatness but fails, finds wisdom and maturity in scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions at last week's MacWorld convention in New York City, it was easy to imagine Apple Computer's interim-CEO-for-life perched somewhere in the pantheon between Odysseus and Simba the Lion King...
...matter: for now, at least, the company is once again churning out cool products that the public is actually buying. Act III is under way. The prodigal son is home. And, against all odds, the Apple dream is alive. "Is it possible to fall in love with a computer?" asks Jeff Goldblum in a new TV ad Jobs screened last week for the adoring legions at MacWorld. Then, as a tangerine iBook dances and twirls onscreen, Goldblum answers his own question with an erotic, breathy groan...
RESPONSIBILITIES Exude sexuality, act slightly...