Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cried out to be told in screaming headlines: KILLER AMENDMENT ATTACKS PAPERS. At the heart of the drama was Rupert Murdoch, the saucy conservative press baron known to his critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election; Alfonse D'Amato, his scrappy colleague; and Ed Koch, the loquacious mayor...
KENNEDY'S VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give...
Crawford, who had trained as a boy soprano under Composer Benjamin Britten, responded immediately to the Phantom's soaring tenor line. "I had only to hear the first eight or so bars to know that Phantom was something quite special," he says. "The score sent chills down my spine the first time I heard it, and still does. Andrew's got me singing from the bottom of my heart to the top hair on my head...
Andrew wrote his first tune at nine, and three years later began mounting mock musicals in a toy theater whose stage was an old record turntable. At about this time, an aunt whetted his theatrical passion when she took the boy to see South Pacific, which remains his favorite musical. At 14 he won a scholarship to London's Westminster School and produced three now forgotten student shows...
...Really Useful Group (the name derives from the Really Useful Engine, a recurring phrase in the Wilbert Awdry series of children's books that enthralled Lloyd Webber as a boy) comprises a producing organization, a music- publishing company, a record division, a video company, Aurum Press and the Palace Theater London Ltd., the last a separate entity that currently houses the London production of Les Miserables. Lloyd Webber is a nonexecutive member of the board (so is Rice) who owns about 40% of the stock but is not actively involved in management. When the company went public two years...