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...jail-bait divas like Rosie Hamlin ("Angel Baby"), Little Peggy March ("I Will Follow Him") and Lesley Gore ("It's My Party"), and by the teen girl groups. Many of the anthems they sang, of suicidal angst or jolting joy, were written by other teenagers who worked in the Brill Building, smack in the heart of the musical-theater district that their music had made obsolescent...
...listed as "consultant"; he claims he was much too bossy ever to collaborate. He also knew that the shoe would have "new" songs; the pastiche conceit embraced not only the ransacking of tacky 50s-60s modes of decor, coiffure and couture but the rephrasing of less-than-classic Brill Building song styles...
...opening credits reveals a street little like today's. The Trans-Lux Theatre, the Warner and Capital and Rivoli: all are gone. So are the roomy, stately Checker Cabs. The Palace Theatre, where the Herbie Temple sequence was shot, dropped vaudeville shortly after the picture was made. The Brill Building, Tin Pan Alley's Deco palace, still gleams, though it was never a residence; J.J.'s penthouse apartment, with its marble finishings, a Xanadu-size fireplace and a terrace that beckons frail lovelies to jump off, is the film's fiction - why shouldn't a man who is all business...
Talk is the latest casualty of an atrocious period for magazines. The tech-focused Industry Standard, which led all magazines in ad pages in 2000, closed in 2001, as did Brill's Content, Mademoiselle and Working Woman, to name a few. (TIME's parent company, Time Inc., axed several magazines last fall.) Total magazine ad pages dropped 11.7%, from 2000 to 2001. Leland Westerfield, a media analyst with UBS Warburg, terms the ad climate "the toughest since prior to World...
...made gorgeous records. They got three particularly inventive pieces from Pomus and his new writing partner Mort Shuman: "This Magic Moment," "Save the Last Dance for Me" and the can-never-be-played-too-often "Sweets for My Sweet." L&S also encouraged the young songwriters in Broadway?s Brill Building - Gerry Goffin and Carole King ("When My Little Girl Is Smiling"), Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("On Broadway"), who were all in their late teens or early 20s -to write plangent pop ballads. These were the Broadway songs that Broadway couldn?t bring itself to write...