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...Paris--is stopping in New York City (through March) en route to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But the show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous in trying to please, offend and astonish all at once...
...about the advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show-biz skeptic that, yes, the Broadway musical is alive and well...
LINDA MCCARTNEY seems to have it all: a happy vegetarian family, a $50 million vegetarian food biz, two cookbooks and the cash to send a million vegetarian meals to Bosnia. But she can't rest. "At night I think of all the animals waiting to be slaughtered," she says. And so she badgered the remaining Beatles into announcing last week that they won't eat meat either...
...probably because he's been up--once by common teeny-bopper consent the sexiest dude on the planet--and he's been down--recently by common show-biz consent a marginal player, working in hopeless enterprises like Moment to Moment and Perfect, not to mention projects headed straight to video (The Tender)--and really doesn't see much difference between the two. Even when he had a hit like Look Who's Talking, it was an object of contempt in all the better circles. And along the way, he managed to turn down eventual winners like Arthur, Splash...
...ceremonial first move for Anand. Giuliani pushed the c pawn two squares forward. Vishy, somewhat horrified, wanted e-4. Even though the mayor had taken his hand off the piece, Anand was allowed to change the move--flouting the most basic rule of chess. But, hey, that's show biz...