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...forgetting test answers; the supersalesman of sample cases that will not open; the victorious general of gum balls in his muskets. In order to succeed, one must dream of failure. This new off-Broadway play by John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is about a desperate playwright named Bing Ringling (William Atherton). He is too busy writing flops to dream. The critical notices for his latest efforts are on the order of, "The next time we read this author's name it should be on the obituary page...
...Svengali-like collaborator (they are working on a musical version of the Iliad and the Odyssey) sells Bing out for a bigger name. His addled, overattentive parents come to believe he is someone else, rather than their disappointing son. An old childhood, friend, now a rich and famous movie star, even upstages Bing's suicide attempt with a dive from a Broadway billboard. The star has sold the rights to his death...
...seven-week decrease in guaranteed work from 51 weeks a year to 44, but won a Met agreement to pay hefty unemployment benefits if necessary during all "lost" weeks. The ill will between labor and management that was so prevalent during the latter days of the Rudolf Bing regime at the Met was said to be almost nonexistent this time. That may have been the greatest gain...
...songs tucked under his arm. He was dossing down in a friend's bathtub when ABC-Paramount Records gave him a contract. Diana was his first cut. It was an immediate hit and went on to become the second biggest grossing record in history, right after Bing Crosby's White Christmas...
...opinion on all manner of subjects. A mild and white-haired figure, married to his longtime research assistant, Veronica Boulter (his 33-year first marriage ended in divorce in 1946), Toynbee frequently visited U.S. universities and once commented that the things he liked best about the U.S. were Bing Crosby and peanut butter. Not all his views were so benign. When he was 80, he declared in the autobiographical Experiences that the U.S. (in Viet Nam) and Israel (in Palestine) were partners in colonialism. As recently as last year, he wrote in the Observer that fuel shortages might well lead...