Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shipwreck. Until Joe Levine came along, Hercules was just another Italian film that several U.S. distributors had seen and sneered at. And Steve Reeves was just another refugee from California's Muscle Beach set who had tried Broadway and TV and even studied a little chiropractic before an Italian producer picked him up for Hercules. On a tip, Levine flew to Rome and looked at the picture. Says he: "It had action and sex, a near shipwreck, gorgeous women on an island and a guy tearing a goddam building apart. And where did you ever see a guy with...
Nobody paid any mind the morning a throaty Broadway actress gulped down some repairs for the damage of the night before and strode about her villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...
...when Alla herself returned from Broadway to live in one of her own villas as a paying guest, an era was ending. The old faces were fading fast; the place was soon overrun by roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from Kansas City who made his fortune turning out horror pictures for the kiddies. For months last year, all drinks served in the Garden bar were put on his tab, and eventually he broke the record rung up by Benchley and his pals...
...York stage is so tethered to the Broadway box-office that none of the city's 30 playhouses, that constitute the professional American stage, supports theatre culturally or on a long term basis, he added in his speech on "The American Theatre Today...
...characteristics of the modern theatre are its isolationist status on Broadway and its highly commercial outlook which makes for little artistry and attracts to production staffs a host of "ignoramuses and vulgarians," interested only in popular entertainment and high profits...