Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best news of the year," raved a critic in the New York Times. "A showstopper," declared another. The reviews were not for a Broadway hit but for the hottest new product in photography: Kodak's supercrisp Ektar color + film. Not available in the U.S. for another month, the film is so much in demand that American shutterbugs and camera shops are buying rolls from dealers in Europe, where Ektar was introduced last November...
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs) brings to Broadway the funny and poignant performance that won her London's version of the Tony as a discontented housewife breaking free...
...council also heard a long and sometimes emotional debate over a Domino's Pizza planned for the busy intersection of Broadway and Prospect...
Shirley Bradshaw, nee Valentine, could be a bit of a bore, and a one-woman play about her could degenerate into a dutiful journey through familiar terrain in the regions of feminist anger and mid-life crisis. But the beguiling comedy by Willy Russell (Educating Rita) that opened on Broadway last week has three invaluable things going for it: an unflagging sense of humor; an authenticity of language and logic that keeps the central character's conversation from ever turning into stand-up comedy or sermonette; and, foremost, a hugely likable performance by Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs...
...quest for stardom? Yes. In a nice manageable sort of way. As his autobiographical Enter Laughing shows, Reiner has always believed that show biz is a circle more charmed than vicious, that . its most characteristic derangement is a sort of addled innocence. In Lindsay, star of the London-Broadway hit Me and My Girl, Reiner has found a perfect, gently insinuating instrument. Together they have created a sweet anachronistic counterpoint to the depressing hubbub of today's celebrity world...