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Eighty Days should not be billed as "a new musical by Craig Peters based on Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days". This is not a 'musical'--it lacks the necessary plot and unity, and will leave an audience expecting these basics disappointed. Eighty Days is a showcase for Peters' original music to be played and sung, and if viewed from that perspective, it's a show worth seeing...
...medical supplies to the compound, as well as copies of national magazines that featured Koresh on their covers. Sensing that he's a man who enjoys the spotlight, the FBI even sent Koresh a letter offering a live appearance "on America Talks on the Christian Broadcasting Network hosted by Craig Smith." Like a cheerful mass mailing, it concluded: "This is an extraordinary opportunity...
Clarkson took an 3-0 lead with two goals from Craig Conroy and one from Marko Tuomainen. The engineers countered with two, but Hugo Belanger and Guy Sanderson scored Belanger and Guy Sanderson scored at 17:49 and 18:18 of the second period to give Clarkson the victory...
Actually, Craig didn't see any of those movies. Though he provides the on- air voice for Sixty Second Preview and sees a couple of films a week, he freely admits that his reviews are largely researched and written by a staff of six. Not that it matters much to publicists for the Hollywood studios, who have made Craig as ubiquitous a brand name in the movie world as Dolby Stereo. He is probably the most prominent of a new crop of movie blurbmeisters: critics and critic-wannabes who seem to exist mainly to service the studios with glowing quotes...
...Craig, for his part, defends the practice of taking on-air credit for what are frequently the opinions of others. "It's a team effort," he says. "Bill Clinton doesn't write all his own speeches. Billy Crystal doesn't write all his jokes." Half his reviews, he points out, are unfavorable, and he sees nothing wrong with drawing attention to the raves. "I have no problem, and neither do the people who work with me, advertising the fact that we like a movie, putting it out there and receiving some publicity...