Word: ado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONLY two playwrights have more than one hit currently running on Broadway: William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing and Two Gentlemen of Verona) and Neil Simon (The Prisoner of Second Avenue and one of TIME'S top ten of 1972, The Sunshine Boys). When Mr. Shakespeare's representative announced that he was unavailable, Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer settled for an interview with Neil Simon. At 45, Simon retains the astonished demeanor of a man who has just heard a loud noise. It is probably the sound of a cosmic cash register. In nine years Simon has become...
...MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The Shakespeare classic becomes a beguiling musical, transplanted to the U.S. of the Teddy Roosevelt...
...City with his family and close friend Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo. He visited his old law firm, now called Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander, and left his motorcade to shake hands along Wall Street. "I'm bullish on America," he said. In the evening, he attended a performance of Much Ado About Nothing-not at all intended as any kind of comment on his week in the Maryland Hills...
Specials will also continue to provide an avenue for drama's modest comeback on TV. Theatrical Producer Joseph Papp will bring Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to CBS. ABC will show a filmed performance of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night by Laurence Olivier and England's National Theater troupe. Many specials will probably turn out to be less than special, but in their diversity and indefinability they may be a good portent: they constitute a format that offers some hope of liberation from the very concept of format...
...Much Ado About Nothing Award: To Av Westin, who hooted, when ABC Correspondent Tom Jarriel shoved his way to President Nixon at the Marine Stadium, "ABC scores again! That's exclusive, baby...