Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koubek 5-7--19; John Smith 2-0--4; Danny Ferry 6-2--16; Phil Henderson 2-5--9; Quinn Snyder 4-2--11; Alaa Abdelnaby 4-4--12; Robert Brickey 4-0--8; Brian Davis 2-2--6; Christian Laettner 2-4--8; Clay Buckley 0-0--0; Crawford Palmer 1-1--3; George Burgin...
Putting products on the big screen is hardly a new pitch. Joan Crawford knocked back Jack Daniel's in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell dabbed on Charles of the Ritz perfume in Auntie Mame (1958). But ever since lovable E.T. followed a line of Reese's Pieces to a record box-office gross in 1982 -- and & sales of the candy leaped 66% in three months -- film pitches have become a bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return...
...singers -- Leona Mitchell as the eponymous Ethiopian slave girl, Placido Domingo as her hapless Egyptian lover Radames -- but for towering sets and slick stage machinery, then the era of content-free opera is at hand. Under the artistic direction of James Levine and departing general manager Bruce Crawford, the Met has ( suffered from a hardening of its arteries, offering up one lumbering spectacle after another without much apparent thought as to whether they make artistic sense...
...problem is that no one is in charge, and not just of Aida. Crawford, the former chairman of BBDO International, who became general manager just three years ago, stunned the opera world last month when he announced he would return to his first love, the ad game, in April. Levine, 45, has been at the Met practically since puberty and lately has been making valedictory noises; it is no secret that he wishes to expand his European activities and that Herbert von Karajan's twin jobs as head of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival would suit him just...
...millenia before Joan Crawford discovered wire hangers, Euripides wrote the definitive play about a woman done wrong--who then takes it out on her kids. Director Laith Zawawi is giving Medea the "black box" treatment...