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After barely six months at Hilton, Bollenbach has added a layer to the empire bequeathed by former CEO Barron Hilton, the son of founder Conrad. Last month the company agreed to buy Bally Entertainment's hotels and casinos, adding 4,826 rooms to Hilton's collection of 99,105 and, more important, giving Hilton two gambling tents in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a place now fairly bursting at the seams with wage burners. "He's brilliant and a terrific guy," says Trump, the once and future king of Atlantic City, whose own company can't build rooms fast enough...
...Kathleen began "OpSmile" in 1982; since then it has performed surgery on 18,000 kids in 15 countries to correct--without charge--such disfigurements as cleft palates and burn scars, while training local doctors in the procedures. Says William: "The world is changed by emotion." On June 20, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will award the group a $1 million prize...
...second act things pick up a little and things move along quickly. Conrad begins to realize that other people have problems, too, and that he is not always to blame for his own. The choir director, played by Orin Johnson, lightens up his scenes. The music, while in the same style as the first act, does manage to throw in a few songs that aren't depressing, such as when Conrad asks out Jeanine Pratt (Sarah Baskin) in the song "I Have A Little Question." "It doesn't have to be a real date. We could fake it," he sings...
Halliday gave a great performance as Mrs. Jarrett, trying desperately to pull her life back together. Constantly wanting to run off with her husband to Spain or Portugal, she doesn't know how to deal with Conrad's return from the hospital. Halliday was one of the few in the cast whose voice really comes through. This was especially helpful in her duets with Marks. Susannah Hills, playing Conrad's friend from the hospital, had another strong voice, which unfortunately was only heard for two songs in the first...
While the first act of "Ordinary People" is depressing, the second act builds the audience's spirits back up, so that by the end a glimmer of hope has actually broken through Conrad's darkness. Unlike his friend Karen, Conrad manages to survive. He sings that he has learned from the people he has met and there are "A lot of things I'd like to change, but I'll take what I can get." In the program, director Victor Chiu asks the audience to remember this as the musical's message: "This Hope. Have faith in it. Take...