Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BoDeans should know. Their second album, Outside Looking In (Reprise/ Slash), produced by Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads, is a tuneful advance over their exceptional debut last year, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams. They give those roots a few strong twists, then tie them in tight rhythmic knots. Say About Love could almost come from some rediscovered master of a Buddy Holly session in Clovis, N. Mex. What It Feels Like moves like a cat burglar, sounds fresh as tomorrow and -- well, feels like the future...
...invented one: The Morning Program, a relentlessly cheery farrago of entertainment and information that featured stand-up comedy, personal ads and an intrusive studio audience. Scorned by critics, the show plummeted in the ratings to a record low (10% of the morning audience). Prior to the show's debut, says one longtime CBS producer, "everyone thought we had the lowest ratings you could have in the morning. The Morning Program proved us wrong." Indeed, its abysmal numbers were hurting the following shows of affiliate stations, and mass defections appeared imminent. So no one was surprised when, last week, CBS axed...
...comic couple," he notes.) When the German army occupied Italy, Marcello was sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe. "It was the most important company in Italy," he says. "So I got into the theater from the golden door...
Neuharth did not help the company's balance sheet last month when he staged lavish fifth-anniversary parties in six cities, including a star-studded Los Angeles bash with Actress Angie Dickinson and Author Jackie Collins. Next project: a weekday half-hour television version of USA Today, scheduled to debut next fall...
...Women's Studies nears the completion of its third full week, the newly established concentration can claim 16 undergraduate concentrators or joint-concentrators, and a relatively hassle-free debut on campus...