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Like his most famous play, The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare's wry new off-Broadway work concerns the almost mystical longing of the unfamous for contact with celebrities. The odd title derives from a theory that any two people, no matter how distant in geography or circumstance, are linked by a chain of acquaintances: A knows B, who knows C, and so on. Thus the most renowned figure will turn out to be a friend of a friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from...
...must purloin a locomotive to push the car up to warp speed. Romantic: frenetic Doc smitten by love for -- who else in a western? -- Mary Steenburgen's lovely schoolmarm. Deliciously anticipated: the appearance of Marty's bullying nemesis Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), this time got up as his distant ancestor Buford ("Mad Dog") Tannen, the dumbest gun in the West...
...December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
...wired most of the U.S. in little more than a decade and vastly increased the number of TV channels available to the average home. It enticed viewers with movie services like HBO and Showtime, brought in superstations from distant cities and popularized MTV. But the industry responsible for these feats is hearing few huzzahs these days. More and more people, it seems, are griping about cable...
...universities to jump on the licensing bandwagon, Harvard can now cash in on its prestigious name--something that merchants and their suppliers have been doing for some time now. "The selling of the name," as some derisively call it, is a multi-million dollar enterprise that involves manufacturers as distant from Harvard Yard as Spokane, Wash., merchants as close as Mass. Ave. and consumers from all parts of the world...