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Sappington's Slide is savvy show biz; maybe Jerome Robbins should take a bow too. In the finale, Pucci, who was an engaging clown with the Pilobolus troupe during the '80s, lightens things up with cheerful, back-lit aerobics. In a pas de deux that manages to be both steamy and droll, he may be offering an opinion on pointe work, particularly when he has the ballerina (Jodie Gates) aim her toe shoe into her prostrate partner's mouth...
...entrepreneurs large and small have seized on VR, hoping to turn Defense Department-bred technology into show-biz profit. Companies from the Hudson River to Tokyo Bay -- the brand names include Paramount Communications, AT&T, Viacom, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Matsushita, Edison Brothers, Hasbro and Time Warner -- are betting cumulative billions on VR. Christopher Gentile of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes...
...thing, the collapse of the musically totalitarian 12-tone system has enabled a thousand melodic flowers to bloom. No longer do the words contemporary music mean two hours of agonistic screaming and clangorous orchestral Klangfarbenmelodie. For another, audiences raised on show-biz special effects demand large-scale spectacle, and innovative opera producers have risen to the challenge; not since the days of Meyerbeer at the Paris Opera have set design and direction loomed so large...
Three pairs of actors play Cheng and Duan: as children and then teenagers in the Peking Opera School and finally as adults. Imagine that one of those show- biz sagas about performers who can harmonize only onstage -- For the Boys or The Sunshine Boys -- had begun when the main characters really were boys, and continued for 53 years of love, comradeship and betrayal. Concubine (cut by about 15 minutes for its U.S. release but still a rich and savory 2 1/2- hour banquet) hopscotches from the warlord era to the Japanese occupation to the Cultural Revolution and beyond. And under...
...heavenly blend of all three, the lady has earned her halo. It may be mild hyperbole to call Midler the greatest entertainer in the universe -- there are, after all, other galaxies yet to be explored -- but who can doubt she's the hardest-working woman in show biz? In New York City, where she stars until Oct. 23 in the longest stop of her first tour in a decade, Bette is poetry in perpetual motion, from her prompt entrance at 8:10 (royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure just before 11. She must cover about 10 miles...