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...nobody, critic or informed amateur, is grousing by the end of the show, when most of the principals join in the 1951 skit-song "Catch Our Act at the Met," by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne. A high-art parody that's up there with Chuck Jones' Daffily Wagnerian "What's Opera, Doc?", the number combines parody, musical virtuosity and about a million laffs. As most every Encores! show does, it sends the audience out of Ciiy Center levitating on a contact high with the best in musical theater. At Encores!, the old shows are always loved...
DIED. Betty Comden, 89, sophisticated, witty wordsmith who, with rumpled collaborator Adolph Green, helped create stage musicals like On the Town, Bells Are Ringing and The Will Rogers Follies and wrote screenplays for such seminal MGM films as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon; in New York City. Throughout a 60-year career, the pair, who were not married to each other, worked every day, mostly in the living room of Comden's Manhattan apartment, composing stories and lyrics for the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and seamlessly adapting them to music that ranged from bouncy...
...Stuff”—like befriending Adolph Hitler...
...past, present and potential futures of American Jews--one of the most thorough journalistic surveys of American Jewish life ever published. Actors who wound up in Hollywood got camouflage names whether they wanted them or not. While pioneer moviemakers like Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and Adolph Zukor retained Jewish-sounding names, they were "determined to avoid any hint of Jewishness in the films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously they seemed downright anti-Semitic. Walter Lippmann did so, refusing to become a member of (or even give a lecture to) any Jewish organization...
Elsewhere, the rewards can involve intricate calculations. The Colorado-based Adolph Coors Co. will pay 90% rather than 85% of the medical bills of employees who fill out a 105-item questionnaire. Along with the standard medical inquiries, the form asks about such stressful experiences as divorce and job changes, even whether the employee carries a gun. Based on the responses, workers are assigned a "health age." If it is more than two years above their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according...