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...magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver templed...
Executors of the King's estate have licensed the sale of a new Presley spray cologne that will retail at $19.50. No, it doesn't smell like a sweaty towel or a blue suede shoe; the scent is described as a "contemporary, masculine blend of woods, herbs and amber." Read: a good-ole-boy's Old Spice...
...Prince as the abandoned wife, Michael Rupert as her ex-husband, Stephen Bogardus as the man he left her for, and Price as the psychiatrist. The fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first great musical...
...been a good blend of continuing the quality of the choir and his bringing new ideas and enthusiasm," says McGrath...
...inspiration for Miller's Crossing was a pair of Dashiell Hammett novels: Red Harvest (which provided the milieu of a corrupt city ruled by warring gangsters) and The Glass Key (which provided the plot of an aging boss and his young adviser involved with the same woman). To this blend the Coens have brought a teeming cast of sharpies, most of them spectacularly, thoughtfully venal. They speak wittily but often don't mean quite what they say; listeners must find clues in their equally eloquent silences...