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...Delicatessen Window. Everding has mounted one of those productions in which the actors don't act but the scenery does. Wagner's two lovers live in an emotional realm of their own, encountering calamity only when they have to reconcile ecstasy with reality. Everding has them floating off into their own dreamworld during passionate scenes, returning to earth when other people are around. In a starkly symbolic setting where nothing is real, it might have worked. But in this production, both world and dreamworld look equally realistic. Nothing fuses...
Tristan (Jess Thomas) and Isolde (Birgit Nilsson) down their love potion on the deck of a palpably realistic ship. Suddenly they are obscured by swirling clouds, as if seen through a delicatessen window on a cold day. Later, in a dense, lushly tropical garden, they embrace, then shoot skyward via an elevator. They float among color-slide-projected stars, perch on the solid-looking edge of a planet examining a literal representation of the sun's corona, finally end their galactic tour by strolling across what seems to be an asteroid before ending up again in their dank garden...
Dictatorship and Delicatessen. Sir Lew's orbit extends far beyond Britain. He was one of the first to see the potential in filmed TV programs-as opposed to live ones-shot relatively cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones...
...managed by Sir Lew, ATV falls somewhere between a benevolent dictatorship and a family delicatessen. "There are two Lew Grades-the patriarch and the businessman," says one of his executives. "Ask for ?500 because of some personal crisis, and it's yours. Ask for ?500 extra on a budget-not a chance." Grade chooses new programs largely on instinct. His motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then...
Glut of Longhairs. Ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy for many years. But turning the practice into big business has taken men of vision like Ward Warren, 22, a senior at Babson College near Boston. Last fall Warren sank $25,000-earned in the delicatessen and the snack bar he owns-into Termpapers Unlimited. He now says that he is close to breaking even. "The secret of my success," he says earnestly, "is that my employees really believe in what they're doing. Also, there are a lot of brilliant, long-haired people...