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...Tony Awards time (this Sunday on CBS at 8 p.m. ET), and that means time for the annual lamentations about the state of the Broadway theater. Most of the angst this spring has been directed at the dearth of straight plays, at least those with enough beef to legitimately compete for a Best Play award. Two of the four nominees this year (Anna in the Tropics and The Retreat From Moscow) closed months ago. And the favorite to win is I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright?s rather trumped-up monologue about an East German transvestite who recounts...
...know the kid who just won the Best Actor award at Cannes? What's the name of his movie...
...Japan has gone wild over 14-year-old Yuuya Yagira, who turns in a heartbreaking performance as the eldest of four children struggling to survive in a Tokyo apartment after being abandoned by their mother. He's the youngest person ever to win the award at Cannes, and the first Best Actor from Japan, and the film's name...
...adopting more sophisticated formulas that peg CEO compensation to benchmarks other than the stock price in a bid to align pay more closely with performance. During each of the next three years, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina can accrue up to 150% of a nearly $2 million cash award if she meets certain criteria for operating cash flow. But she will collect the full amount only if at the end of the three years HP stock has outperformed at least half the companies in the S&P 500. IBM is now granting its top 300 senior executives stock options that...
DIED. JUNE TAYLOR, 86, Emmy Award--winning choreographer whose high-kicking, wide-smiling routines on The Jackie Gleason Show introduced the Broadway-inspired chorus line to television audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Miami. When a bout of tuberculosis at age 20 derailed her career as a Chicago nightclub dancer, she founded her own touring company, the June Taylor Dancers, and in 1946 ran into Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub...