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...Necessarily should appeal to "anyone who loves Broadway, stars, or entertainment," Borowitz says. The revue definitely possesses a theatrical theme; many of its skits deal with songwriters' careers and show biz in general. Nevertheless, much of the material treats more Harvard-oriented subjects from cafeteria employees to Lamont Library checkers. In addition, the show promises to teach the audience a foreign language and contains a newsreel that covers thirty years of American history in five minutes. Borowitz characterizes the revue as a musical Monty Python. "It's not sreious," he says seriously. Tonight and tomorrow night, in the Adams...
...most "shocking" venture was another book, Learning from Las Vegas (1972). That title said it all. After the high ambitions of Modernism, the glitzy show biz vernacular of Route...
...slot on the charts. During one of those weeks, the RSO logo?a benign, bright red castrated bull?graced the labels on three of the top five albums. During two of those weeks, across the way on the singles charts, RSO claimed four of the top five. Music biz stats like this burn the giant tails of such outfits as Columbia and Warner Bros.-Elektra/Asylum-Atlantic. Such a fact was not lost on anyone in the record business, least of all Robert Stigwood. "I knew Al was dedicated to music," Stigwood said. "I just didn't know he was that dedicated...
...wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset Strip billboards, which are for the music indus try what heraldry was to Camelot. He also brainstorms with the talent, helping art ists choose material. Singer Yvonne Elliman calls him "the man with the golden...
...matter of public record. But snapshots of Mom and Dad enclosed in a heart-shaped frame peer out of every copy of the Summer concert program, surrounded by pictures of Donna's daughter Mimi, 5. Three other Gaines daughters have followed their sister down the show biz path, and they sing back-up vocals for Donna...