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BROADWAY HAS ALREADY mined the songs of old rockers like Abba and Billy Joel for new musicals. The Four Seasons, above, are being re-created in Jersey Boys, below, opening next month in La Jolla, Calif. But they're just warmup acts for the next round of rock musicals. --By Richard Zoglin
DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the best-selling novel Fail-Safe,about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, Calif. A native of Waco, Texas, he was also the author of political-science books and, as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, did pioneering research on health care...
...business partners George Shapiro and Howard West, who first worked together as camp lifeguards in the Poconos and then in 1955 started in the mail room at New York City's William Morris Agency. Since 1974, they've been partners in Shapiro/West & Associates, a firm based in Beverly Hills, Calif., that produces films and TV shows and has managed such performers as Reiner, Jerry Seinfeld and the late Andy Kaufman...
Others from the old gang have had a variety of careers, selling everything from bricks and lumber to designer labels and major motion pictures. Some still live in New York City, and the rest can be found from Boca Raton, Fla., to Malibu, Calif. They always find one another; when marketing executive Joel Coler went to Los Angeles with 20th Century Fox in 1972, Shapiro saw an ad about the move in Variety and called Coler the same day. Ten of the guys were ushers at the wedding of Barbara Topper and Sam Lewis in 1951 but lost touch until...
Although some are outspoken about their feelings, many are not. "Parents are afraid to be seen as meddling, so they don't ask questions or say how they feel," says Joel Crohn, a psychologist in San Rafael, Calif., and author of Mixed Matches (Fawcett Columbine). "And adult kids often assume they know what their parents are thinking, so they also avoid saying anything." Crohn counsels grandparents to take the lead in getting these concerns out. And they have to let their adult children know when they are uncomfortable, "as long as they add that they still love and respect their...