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Thanks to the Supreme Court, Ivy League football is on the air. Last June the Justices threw out the, NCAA's monopoly in making broadeast deals, allowing member schools to negotiate for TV rights on their own, Barney Frank, an executive at the sports promotion firm Trans World International, came up with the idea of an Ivy Group football package soon after the ruling. The plan's intention was not to displace Rose Bowl contenders from their commercial network homes, but rather to put the Ivy games on public, television, underwritten by corporate philanthropy a la "Masterpiece Theatre" or "Alastair...
...Shakespeare live on Parnassus. Beckett lives in Paris, and he threatened an injunction to block the Endgame production. Just before opening night, both sides agreed instead that the show would go on. But attached to each program would be disclaimers from Beckett and his American agent and publisher, Barney Rosset, along with a defense of the production by Robert Brustein, A.R.T.'s artistic director...
...revival of the U.S. economy has played a large part in influencing French views. Says Paul Horne, Paris-based chief economist for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., a U.S. brokerage and investment house: "The U.S., with its strong recovery, its capacity for creating jobs, its enduring technological lead, has become the focus of fascination in the French economic world." At the same time, many French people have become disenchanted with the Soviets. Says Francois Lagrange, a senior counselor in the French Premier's office: "They cannot provide a high standard of living. They do not make marketable inventions. They cannot...
...Endgame" opened on schedule at the Loeb Wenesday despite threats of legal action by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and his publisher, Barney Rosset of the Grove Press. Beckett and Rossett objected to ART's set, its use of incidental music by Philip Glass and its use of Black actors...
...BARNEY ROSSET, personal friend and publisher of Samuel Beckett in the United States, has asked the A.R.T. to halt its production of Mr. Beckett's Endgame. Beckett himself has termed the production "completely unacceptable" and "a complete parody of the play as conceived by me." He added "Anyone who cares for this work couldn't fall to be disgusted by this...