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During his time off, Lawler saw some Broadway musicals—his favorites include Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, and Into the Woods—and was inspired to try his hand at penning...
When the producers announced on March 25 that they planned to cancel the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, its star, CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, put her foot down--gingerly. "There was a huge, resounding no in me," says the Anchorman actress, who broke her right foot in a performance in Chicago last month. Three weeks of backstage drama followed. First the show was to open in New York City with a stand-in, then it was closed entirely. But in three days of phone pleas to producer Barry Weissler, "I made him see how important it was that the show...
...films preoccupied critics, cops and the courts. Often financed by Mafia families, they attracted the crusading instincts of local, state and federal prosecutors, who shut down the films and secured the conviction of one actor. They were directed by men who could fancy themselves as artists, and starred off-Broadway actors as well as the occasional gifted ingenue -like Linda Lovelace, star of the movie that created the craze (and the phrase) "porno chic," Deep Throat...
...says 70s performer C.J. Laing. "I despised the people in these films that said they were actors. I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me! This is about fucking and sucking!'" But quite a few thought it was about process and progress. Once the off-Broadway types got into porn, they relied on the actor's invaluable gift for self-hypnosis to convince themselves it was somehow legit. Spelvin, who says she appeared on Broadway in The Pajama Game and Cabaret, recalls, of Devil in Miss Jones, "I took the role very seriously. I was doing Hedda Gabler...
...completed a three-month run at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan. That one surveyed the moment two decades ago when that New York City neighborhood became the anti-SoHo, full of storefront galleries and artists who were thumbing their noses at the fancier dealerships around West Broadway. (At least they were doing that until they could get picked up by those dealers themselves.) And although the art world is a place of very diverse practices these days, two legacies of the '80s turn up everywhere in the work of younger artists: an adolescent obsession with pop culture...