Word: debutants
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After the program's debut last week, most viewers probably agreed. In an effort to look different from its morning competitors -- Today and ABC's Good Morning, America -- The Morning Program has come up with something to embarrass everyone. Smith, a straitlaced former anchorman for New York City's WCBS-TV, and Actress Hartley, who once filled in as a Today co-host, engage in strained banter on an elaborately homey set. The show's regular features include personal ads, in which singles promote themselves via 30-second video clips, comedy routines that, good or bad, do not go down...
Last week Lyubimov, 69, made his U.S. debut at Washington's Arena Stage with ! a revised Crime and Punishment in English, a language he does not read or speak. To make the stage action conform to the vision in his head -- the standard by which Lyubimov, an auteurist and something of an autocrat, judges success -- he discussed the aims of the piece in Russian with Michael Henry Heim, an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote the English dialogue. Lyubimov then guided the actors through Interpreter Alexander Gelman, who is trained...
Soviet Director Yuri Lyubimov makes a blazing U.S. debut with Crime and Punishment. -- Mary Tyler Moore shines in Sweet...
Meantime, three Australian syndicates are battling for the right to defend the Cup. Bond's Australia IV, descendant of the '83 champion, is six points behind Kookaburra III, which represents the Cup debut of rival Perth Millionaire Kevin Parry. Sydney's Steak 'n' Kidney trails the pack...
...Brown; 206 pages; $15.95) -- named, like all her work, for an actual pub -- keenly observes Britain's myriad social classes and offers a persuasive story of family obsession and revenge. Keith Heller attempts the double voyage of writing not only about England but about the early 18th century. His debut, Man's Illegal Life, was a tour de force about urban turmoil in the years before London had police (his detective, named George Man, is a sort of civic night watchman with an awesome sense of duty). Heller's second novel, Man's Storm (Scribner's; 196 pages...