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...seemed like a partnership that could not miss. Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein and Choreographer Jerome Robbins, who created an authentic American dance classic in Fancy Free (1944) and later joined forces on Broadway's evergreen West Side Story, were collaborating on a new work for the first time in nearly 17 years. In the season of The Exorcist, their theme had a certain built-in appeal: the ancient Jewish folk myth of the dybbuk, a wandering spirit of a dead person that invades and inhabits the body of a living man or woman. So what could go wrong...
...While I am sickened by the conduct of those responsible for Watergate, after reading about Reporters Woodward and Bernstein [April 22], I am almost as disgusted by the cloak-and-dagger conduct of the two Washington Post reporters...
...whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world." Obviously eager to put the proceedings into proper perspective, a salesman for the University of California Press streaked in front of the stage, shouting, "Read books, read books!" · The Watergate sleuths of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein, 30, and Bob Woodward, 30, received a $55,000 advance from Simon & Schuster in early 1973 for their account of the scandal. After the sale of movie rights to Robert Redford for $450,000 and Playboy's $25,000 check for two excerpts, the pair expected to gross around...
...Bernstein and Woodward, the rewards have been substantial. Before they began reporting on Watergate, the two earned together less than $30,000 a year. Now, from raises and book advances, magazine, paperback and movie rights (Robert Redford wants to play Woodward), each reporter stands to earn more than $500,000 before taxes from the book, a sum that could surpass President Nixon's net worth?after he pays all his back taxes...
...simply takes off on a dazzling trajectory, from turn-of-the-century New Orleans and the Basin Street Blues through World War I, the '20s, the Depression and on and on. It is an anthology of Cohan and Gershwin and Lehar and Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein and Bernstein and seemingly a few hundred others. Every number is a jew el from the national treasury...