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...WORLD GOES ROUND. This cocktail of an off Broadway review tastes cynical, then sweetly sentimental, in classic Tin Pan Alley style. It honors a stellar team: composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 18, 1991 | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...shows set in TV newsrooms represent a low ebb of creative imagination, but Good Sports may set a record for ineptitude. Creator Alan Zweibel (It's Garry Shandling's Show) flicks in a few satirical jabs at TV, but mostly he seems tuned to another channel. The characters are so woozily out of focus that after two episodes one still can't tell whether Bobby is supposed to be simply naive or mentally retarded. Or why Gayle, the TV pro, keeps having spats with him in front of a nationwide audience. Or why, when he rents an apartment directly opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would It Fool the Family Cat? | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

Levels of corporate debt tend to ebb and flow in a cyclical pattern. For the + moment, leverage is out of style. "Companies may have learned a valuable lesson," says William Rifkin, a managing director at Salomon Brothers, "but they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes in another 20 years." Maybe so, but that means the business managers who have survived the debt swamp will be unwilling to return to it until well into the next century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carry That Weight | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...America's Funniest Home Videos.) The three networks' combined share of the viewing audience -- more than 90% just a dozen years ago -- hit another air pocket this fall, dropping 4 percentage points from a year ago, to 66%. On Saturday nights, when TV viewership is at a low ebb, nearly half the audience is tuned in to something other than the Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Goodbye to The Mass Audience | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Chicago's Razzle-dazzle Fizzles | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

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