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...because it is dynamically different. But the networks are afraid of different. They want carbon-copy television." To the programming chiefs, says Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales, "a new idea looks like a foreign object-it's something to run away from. So they clone whatever was successful elsewhere. Just watch: next year's surefire hit will be called Magnum E.T. They'll have a hairy guy with a mustache come in from outer space. Me, I'd rather watch a rerun of The Honeymooners...
Reaction to the Derita candidacy has been somewhat less than favorable. "They should expunge him and break the legacy line," said George S. Canellos '86. "Either he's making fun of himself or he's proud of being the third clone in his generation," added Nicholas P. Poolos...
...music by Lloyd Webber, currently the most successful composer for Broadway and the West End (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). In London, Cats has been a sold-out smash since it opened in May 1981. But the New York version "will not be a clone of the other," says Producer Cameron Mackintosh. Four main characters have been cut and others merged. Four songs have undergone major rewrites. Other numbers have been stretched or tightened "to take advantage of the special strengths of the American company," says Mackintosh. Lloyd Webber maintains that the final American Cats...
...never did like Danny White. Still don't. He's just too much of a Staubach clone. He'll probably call his own autobiography Punt, Pass, and Jesus...
...year-old, he had been stamped as bad luck, and most young "rabbits," as they were called, avoided him. He had come close a few times after that initial effort but had choked in the clutch. He hated them in every detail, from pearl-white smiles, to their clone-like personalities. "Thank y'all. 'Preciate it," they would invariably say when congratulated for a good shot. "Well, I jus' try to play one hole at a time," they would slowly explain to sportswriters. No character. They composed a lumpy, mushy group of golfers, with all the sensibilities...