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...best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
BORN: Oct. 24, 1954, Los Angeles EDUCATION: UCLA, B.A., 1974; Harvard U, J.D., 1979 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Accountant, lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: California State Board of Equalization, 1990- ADDRESS: 14008 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks...
...supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...still big business; it pumps $2.3 billion annually into the New York City economy. And musicals are still the big ticket ($75 now for some shows). Yet the Great White Way has never been so wan. Last season it had just one new show with new tunes: Sunset Blvd., the sort of megalomusical that is a killer to reproduce in a small theater. The place is a wasteland, and not just for New York visitors. Local theaters hoping to put on a show--with a plot, pretty songs and, please, no helicopters--look to Broadway in vain...
...producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today's children gazing on the Great Stone Face, the influence his work...